Andris Nelsons
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Seiji Ozawa was one of the warmest, kindest, and most generous people I have ever had the privilege of meeting.
He was a great friend, a brilliant role model, and an exemplary musician and leader. He has been an inspiration to me all my life and I will miss him dearly.
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Happy New Year! Some exciting news to start 2019...
It is an incredible honour to have been invited to conduct the legendary New Year's concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 2020.
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It is a huge honour for the
@BostonSymphony
, myself and the whole team behind this project to win two
@RecordingAcad
Grammy awards for our latest CD of our
#Shostakovich
cycle with
@DGclassics
- thank you and congratulations to all
#BestOrchestralPerformance
#BestEngineeredAlbum
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I am so grateful to have conducted the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra as part of the 30th Anniversary concerts for the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival. It was an honour to be able to also reunite with the incredible Seiji Ozawa once again!
📸:© Michiharu Okubo_2022OMF
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Happy New Year to all! It was a joy and incredible honour to celebrate the beginning of this new decade and Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year by conducting the
@Vienna_Phil
New Year’s Concert 2020! Many heartfelt thanks to our wonderful audiences in the
@Musikverein
(1/3)
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Thank you Boston for this fabulous
#birthday
surprise. I’m speechless and totally overwhelmed! Now, who is going to help me eat this gigantic cake? 🎂
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It is a great privilege to be back with the wonderful
@Vienna_Phil
rehearsing for the 2020 New Year’s Concert. We look forward to sharing this beautiful music with you to welcome the New Year! So honoured to have met a descendant of the Strauss family, Dr Eduard Strauss.
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Post-concert fun today in Osaka!
We’ve had the most wonderful time in Japan
@Gewandhaus
, Baiba Skride &
@thomashampson
. Thank you so much to our incredible audiences & everyone we have met here for your heartfelt generosity and kindness! We look forward to seeing you again soon.
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Merry Christmas and I wish you all a happy and healthy 2019! Thank you for all of your support and I am looking forward to an exciting year ahead 🎄💫
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I am extremely grateful & honoured to continue my musical journey with
@BostonSymphony
&
@Gewandhaus
in the coming years: the dedicated trust my two musical families have placed in me as their conductor and colleague is truly a gift that I cherish so passionately.
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Merry Christmas! I am filled with gratitude – towards the wonderful musicians and composers I’ve had the great honour of working with, everyone working so hard behind the scenes & the wonderful audiences who share our love for music. I wish you all happy tidings for the New Year.
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What a brilliant start to our Asia tour in Taiwan! Thanks to
@maofujita_piano
for some beautiful concerts, and to our great audiences for making our trip so special. 🙏🏼
This week, we’re in South Korea, where we’ll be joined by
@SeongJinCho
🇰🇷
@Gewandhaus
#GHOOnTour
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The complete Bruckner symphony box set is out today! 🎉
Having started this recording journey with the
@Gewandhaus
and
@DGclassics
in 2016, I am delighted to finish the cycle and pay tribute to this architectural genius of a composer. Enjoy listening!
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(3/3) throughout Europe in 2020. It is a deep honour to have recorded his symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic on
@DGclassics
, and now to share the joy and passion of this music with all of our listeners throughout this year.
#Beethoven2020
#PlayOn
Photo: Terry Linke
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I am having a wonderful time in Matsumoto rehearsing with the fantastic Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra! I hope you can join us for our concerts on 25 November (Matsumoto) and 26 November (Nagano) where we will be performing Mahler’s Symphony No.9.
📸: Michiharu Okubo/2022OMF
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I am overjoyed to be back with
@BostonSymphony
and rehearsing for the first time since 31 January 2020...! It is so wonderful to make music once again with my dear friends and colleagues here in Boston - I have missed being here greatly 🎶
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Happiest of birthdays to two very dear friends and colleagues from
@BostonSymphony
- Seiji Ozawa on his 85th birthday, and to our President, Mark Volpe. Sending you both my very best wishes for the next year ahead, Andris
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Very excited for tonight's Season Opening performance with the
@Gewandhaus
and the amazing
@YoYo_Ma
!
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(1/2) I couldn’t be more excited to be back in Japan with the wonderful Boston Symphony Orchestra! 🇯🇵 It feels truly special to be back and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share our beautiful music with you. 📷: Winslow Townson
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Some more impressions from our wonderful concert in Taipei last week. Thanks to the great
@maofujita_piano
🙏🏼
We are now in South Korea and getting ready for our concerts in Seoul tomorrow and Thursday! Hope to see you there! 🇰🇷
#GHOontour
@Gewandhaus
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What a wonderful week of concerts in Vienna and Budapest with the incredible
@Vienna_Phil
. I am so looking forward to performing Mahler’s Symphony No.7 in Hamburg and Cologne this weekend.
📸: © Vienna Philharmonic / Dieter Nagl
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I feel incredibly honored and most grateful to have been named "Artist of the Year 2018" by
@MusicalAmerica
.
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It is a huge honour to have been awarded the 10th Shostakovich Prize from the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch
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Deepest thanks for all the wonderful birthday wishes that came my way yesterday! I am moved by all the love, thoughts, and warm greetings and messages. There is so much to be grateful for 🎶
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After last night's
@RecordingAcad
#Grammy
success, the next instalment of
@BostonSymphony
#Shostakovich
cycle, 'Under Stalin's Shadow' with
@DGclassics
will be released on 22 February!
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Thank you Tokyo! What a wonderful week to begin
@Gewandhaus
tour in Japan, performing in
@SuntoryHallE
and
@tbunka_official
with our fantastic soloists Baiba Skride and
@thomashampson
!
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I am thrilled that the joint boxset from the
@Gewandhaus
and
@BostonSymphony
featuring Richard Strauss’ symphonic works has been released today on
@DGclassics
!
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(3/3) A special thank you to our fantastic audiences - it was a true pleasure to meet so many of you in person! Looking forward to our upcoming concerts
@SuntoryHallE
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Hugely honoured to be able to share the New Year's Day 2020 concert programme with
@Vienna_Phil
@Musikverein
with you today!
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Our ‘Concert for the City’ was such a joyous experience! I’m especially grateful to The Hon. Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, for a wonderful performance of the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. Thank you to everyone who joined us! 🎶
📸: Robert Torres
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Today marks the release of another instalment in our Shostakovich cycle with the
@bostonsymphony
and
@dgclassics
!
Eight years after the first release in 2015, I am very excited complete Shostakovich's groundbreaking set of symphonies.
Listen now on all streaming platforms!
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(2/2) Our first concert is tomorrow in Yokohama w/ Mahler’s Symphony No.6. On 10 Nov in Kyoto (C Shaw ‘Punctum’, Mozart No.40 & Strauss ‘An Alpine Symphony’) followed by a concert in Osaka on 11 Nov (Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 & Shostakovich No.5) 📷: Winslow Townson
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Despite having had our concerts & tour cancelled due to the pandemic, it has been wonderful to have been able to be in Leipzig the past 2 weeks to record with the
@Gewandhaus
& celebrate my contract renewal until 2027 - I am so honoured & look forward to continuing our journey!
Gewandhauskapellmeister
@andrisnelsons
bleibt bis 2027 unser 21. Chefdirigent! 🎉 Das hat der Rat der
@StadtLeipzig
gestern einstimmig mit einer Enthaltung beschlossen. Wir sind überaus glücklich! 🤗
📸 André Kempner
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Happy New Year to you and your loved ones! Today,
@DGclassics
will be streaming this concert with the
@BerlinPhil
&
@SeongJinCho
at 15:00 CET. You are warmly invited to join us in watching and listening to works by Beethoven and Liszt – we hope you enjoy!
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It is wonderful to be back at the
@SbgFestival
with
@Vienna_Phil
rehearsing Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 ahead of our concerts on Friday 7th and Sunday 9th August!
Photos: Benedikt Dinkhauser
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I am thrilled to back with the wonderful
@Vienna_Phil
performing Mahler’s Symphony No.7. I hope you can join us for our concerts (13, 14, 15, 17 January in Vienna, 16 January in Budapest, 21 January in Hamburg and 22 January in Cologne).
📸: © Benedikt Dinkhauser
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It was a joy and incredible honour to conduct the
@Vienna_Phil
in the New Year's Concert 2020 to commence the new decade! The CD of this concert is now available:
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I’m excited to share that the latest instalment of our
@BostonSymphony
@DGclassics
#Shostakovich
cycle is out today! Listen or buy now:
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I am delighted that finally we had our
@BostonSymphony
audiences back with us again last night at Symphony Hall for the 2021/22 seasoning opening gala concert for the first time since the pandemic! (1/2) Photos: Aram Boghosian
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Honoured at 2nd consecutive
@GRAMMYAwards
win in
#BestOrchestralPerformance
for our
#Shostakovich
live recording
@BostonSymphony
@DGclassics
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It has been such an honour to be back on tour with the fantastic
@BostonSymphony
. Ending our tour with three concerts in Suntory Hall last week was an amazing experience.
📸: © Naoya Ikegami / SUNTORY HALL
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Hugely honoured to be conducting the New Year's Concert 2020 with
@Vienna_Phil
! The recording will be available to pre-order on 6 December 2019.
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A great pleasure to be playing with
@SeongJinCho
ahead of our Asia tour!
@Gewandhaus
An inspiring time reuniting with
@Andris_Nelsons
and
@Gewandhaus
Orchestra in Leipzig ahead of our tour to Korea and Japan!
© Konrad Stöhr
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My concert from last night with
@Vienna_Phil
@SbgFestival
of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 will be available to watch on
@ARTEen
online tonight at 19:30 BST
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I am extremely excited to be able to get back on the podium once again with the wonderful
@Vienna_Phil
at the
@SbgFestival
to perform Mahler's Symphony No. 6 on 7 & 9 August!
We are delighted to present the modified programme of the 2020 Salzburg Festival:
#salzburgerfestspiele
#salzburgfestival
#sbgfestival100
📸SF/Leo/Neumayr
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So special to reunite w/ the wonderful
@viennaphilharmonic
in Salzburg to celebrate Mahler’s 3rd. Thank you
@viennaphilharmonic
, Violeta Urmana, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks,
@SbgFestival
, Theater Kinderchor and our wonderful audience for this experience! 📷: Martin Kubik
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Music for all times. On the occasion of Beethoven’s 249th anniversary month, the
@Vienna_Phil
and I honour the composer with a new recording of his ninth symphony with
@DGclassics
.
#Beethoven2020
#PlayOn
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It is my last concert
@Gewandhaus
for 2019 tonight, and it is a joy to be joined by my dear friend and colleague Håkan Hardenberger!
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So happy to finally be back in London, one of my very favourite places to be and perform! Excited for tonight‘s
@bbcproms
performance
@RoyalAlbertHall
with the
@Gewandhaus
#GHOonTour
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Looking forward to start our European tour with
@Gewandhaus
at the
@elbphilharmonie
this evening, which continues my residency with
#proartehamburg
at this stunning venue! This concert will also be celebrating
#DG120
birthday celebrations
@DGclassics
🎶
Moin und
#Elphi
ahoi ✌️ Wir verlosen 2 Tickets für unser Tourneekonzert in der
@elbphilharmonie
am 19.01. mit
@andris_nelsons
und Hélène Grimaud. Schaut vorbei auf oder und versucht euer Glück!
#GHOontour
#toitoitoi
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I am overjoyed to be reuniting once again with the wonderful Dame Mitsuko Uchida in Boston for performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5. Performing Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 with the
@BostonSymphony
is always an extremely special experience.
📷: Aram Boghosian
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I am delighted to have been nominated for an
@OlivierAwards
for 'Outstanding Achievement in Opera' for my conducting of Wagner's
#Lohengrin
at
@RoyalOperaHouse
in June last year!
#OlivierAwards
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It was a huge honour and privilege to have received the 10th Shostakovich Prize from the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch yesterday in beautiful Gohrisch!
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It is wonderful to share the stage with
@lisabatiashvili
who has performed a sensational Sibelius Violin Concerto
@BostonSymphony
over the past days! Our final performance is tomorrow, alongside William Grant Still and Strauss.
Photos: Aram Boghosian
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What a joy it was to be back on the podium with
@Gewandhaus
this weekend for our season opening concerts, performing Beethoven with soloist Krystian Zimerman!
Photo: Gert Mothes
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A little backstage shot from last night! Looking forward to performing Brahms with
@GautierCapucon
and
#LeonidasKavakos
again tonight
@Gewandhaus
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Incredibly honored to accept
@TheGRAMMYs
for Best Orchestral Performance w/
@BostonSymphony
&
@DGclassics
#GRAMMYs
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What a joy to have conducted the wonderful
@BostonSymphony
and all our extraordinary soloists (Klaus Florian Vogt, Amber Wagner, Christian Gerhaher and Marina Prudenskaya) in an all-Wagner programme. I’m looking forward to our further performance on Saturday!
📸: Aram Boghosian
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It has been very special to return
@WagnerFestival
& Bayreuth Festival Orchestra - thank you to the wonderful musicians & soloists
@HeldenMommy
, Klaus Florian Vogt & Günther Groissböck for embracing Wagner’s music together on Sunday & Wednesday night!
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I am happy to share that the next instalment of
@Gewandhaus
's Bruckner cycle on
@DGclassics
featuring Symphonies 2 & 8 alongside Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is out now!
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Season’s Greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! After this unusual year with unforeseen turn of events and difficulties for so many people, may next year bring us all good tidings, peace, health, and joy in music. (1/5)
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Happy 50th Birthday to the wonderful Tanglewood Festival Chorus! I hope everyone is staying safe & healthy and is in positive spirits. I look forward to performing with you again soon, and until then, send my most heartfelt wishes to you all!
📸Hilary Scott/Winslow Townson
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I am having a brilliant time in Hamburg at the
@elbphilharmonie
performing Beethoven’s symphony cycle with the wonderful
@Vienna_Phil
! With two concerts down, we have two to go - very much looking forward to performing Symphonies 6 & 7 tonight!
📸: Daniel Dittus
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It is wonderful to be in Amsterdam this week with
@ConcertgbOrkest
performing Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2! Our concerts are being streamed live this Friday at 11:50 CEST and Saturday 20:05 CEST on the orchestra's website, Facebook or Youtube.
Photo credit: Milagro Elstak
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It is great to be back again with the
@BerlinPhil
this week! We welcome you all to join us and watch our programme of Beethoven (in honour of the great conposer's birthday) and Liszt with
@SeongJinCho
TONIGHT at 19:00 CET on the Digital Concert Hall:
...
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(2/3) I couldn’t be more grateful to be sharing this beautiful music with my colleagues and friends, our wonderful soloist, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, and of course all the phenomenal musicians
@BostonSymphony
Orchestra!
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Hugely excited to be playing my trumpet this evening with Baiba Skride, Lauma Skirde, and Harriet Krijgh in a chamber music concert
@Gewandhaus
in memory of Clara Schumann on her 200th birthday later this week! Photo credit: Marco Borggreve
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Wonderful news that the latest
@Gewandhaus
#Bruckner
release of Symphonies 6 and 9 is 'Album of the Week'
@thesundaytimes
@thetimes
!
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Ten years ago in 2010, my friend
@baibaskride
& I gave our debut with the
@BerlinPhil
. We are so happy to be back performing together with this wonderful orchestra. Watch our concert tomorrow, Saturday12 December @ 7pm CET
Photo: Marco Borggreve
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What a wonderful experience performing at the
@bbcproms
again! Thank you to everyone who made these performances so special, including the
@BostonSymphony
and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
📸: BBC Proms / Chris Christodoulou
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Fantastic concerts of Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5
@Vienna_Phil
@Musikverein
, recorded for
@DGclassics
! Looking forward to our concert
@Konzerthauswien
on Thurs, then concerts back
@Musikverein
, then
@elbphilharmonie
& Hannover HCC Kuppelsaal 🎶 © Terry Linke/Wiener Philharmoniker
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The next instalment of
@Gewandhaus
Bruckner cycle with
@DGclassics
will be released on 3 May!
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Thrilled to be back at
@TanglewoodMA
with my friends Håkan Hardenberger and the
@BostonSymphony
musicians! Here's to another musical summer!
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I am overjoyed to be back
@TanglewoodMA
– it is such a special place with an incredible energy & it is particularly wonderful to be back with our audiences! I am very excited for the concerts with the
@BostonSymphony
& the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra. 📷 Hilary Scott
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A few weeks ago I had the joy of being back in Munich with
@Munich_Phil
! Watch our performance of Brahms and Wagner from tomorrow, 15 May at 7pm CET
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Back in rehearsals
@BostonSymphony
for this week's programme of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with
@daniil_trifonov
& Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15, which will be recorded by
@DGclassics
to continue our
#Shostakovich
cycle!
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With Master Chuang in
#Boston
after my black belt exam in
#Taekwondo
at the wonderful C.W. Taekwondo club – the best place for martial arts in Boston!
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(2/3) and across the world, and to the inspiring musicians of the orchestra-I will always treasure this experience.
I’m already looking forward to continuing to make music with this very special orchestra in celebration of Beethoven’s life and work by touring his symphonic cycle
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Rehearsing Beethoven symphonies
@Vienna_Phil
for our
#Beethoven2020
tour! Excited to perform
@TCEOPERA
@koelnmusik
@elbphilharmonie
Gasteig Münchner & Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Listen to our Beethoven symphonies recordings:
@DGclassics
© Ben Morrison
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Last night
@BostonSymphony
performed the first of seven concerts featuring works of Richard Strauss ahead of the release of our joint box set with the
@Gewandhaus
. We are proud and honoured to release this great composer’s complete symphonic works on
@DGclassics
on 6 May!
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A week ago, it was with great pleasure to reunite w/ all friends
@bostonsymphony
.Such a special occasion to share the podium w/Thomas Wilkins,John Williams,
@anne_sophie_mutter
& Keith Lockhart! Tonight, we continue the season w/ R Strauss & Mozart together with
@naughtonpiano
.
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After several weeks of extensive rehearsals we are only two days away from the
#premiere
of the new
#Lohengrin
production directed by David Alden at the
@RoyalOperaHouse
#London
!
#ROHlohengrin
#ROH
#CoventGarden
#opera
#Wagner
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCKNER! Having just performed his wonderful Symphony No 8 on tour, I am very excited to record this work with
@Gewandhaus
@DGclassics
back in Leipzig this week for our
#Bruckner
cycle on Thursday and Friday this week!
We celebrate the birthday of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner! In honor of the composer's art, listen to the latest title in
@andris_nelsons
’ ongoing cycle performed with the
@Gewandhaus
:
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It has been such a joy to conduct the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra tonight and yesterday evening with a wonderful programme celebrating the great music of Richard Wagner.
@KlausFlorianVog
&
@cfostersoprano
- it’s been a pleasure! 🎶 📷:
@WagnerFestival
/ Enrico Nawrath
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Back in Berlin performing Scriabin and Shostakovich with
@BerlinPhil
and Daniil Trifonov with concerts tonight, tomorrow and Saturday! Watch live on Saturday night here:
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I am delighted that the next instalment of
@BostonSymphony
's Shostakovich cycle on
@DGclassics
is out now! I hope that you enjoy this wonderful music of Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 (with
@KristineOpolais
& Alexander Tsymbalyuk), 15 and the Chamber Symphony.
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I am very happy to be back in rehearsals again with the
@Gewandhaus
in Leipzig for their chamber music festival!
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It is so wonderful to be back in rehearsals with
@Gewandhaus
ahead of our 2020/21 Season Opening concerts this weekend 🎶
“Music is food for our souls. We cannot substitute that with anything but a live performance.”,
@andris_nelsons
, our 21th Gewandhauskapellmeister
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What a wonderful week with
@ReneeFleming
@BostonSymphony
with our all Strauss programme in Boston, and then ending with our concert
@carnegiehall
on Tuesday!
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Back in Europe after the most wonderful month
@TanglewoodMA
, conducting both
@BostonSymphony
& Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and a host of first-class soloists! (© Hilary Scott)
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We had a fantastic week in Paris, performing Beethoven’s symphony cycle
@Vienna_Phil
@TCEOPERA
and then
@koelnmusik
. This week, we perform in Hamburg’s
@elbphilharmonie
! Listen to our
@dgclassics
recordings here:
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It was wonderful seeing so many familiar and new faces at yesterday’s concert and
@Gewandhaus
Anniversary Reception. Thank you all for coming and celebrating 275 years of music making in Leipzig with us!
#275YrsGHO
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Very excited to be back in Hamburg
@elbphilharmonie
tonight & Hannover HCC tomorrow, conducting Beethoven's Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 5 with
@Vienna_Phil
& soloists
@buchbinderpiano
, Albena Danailova & Tamás Varga © Terry Linke/Wiener Philharmoniker
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It is wonderful to be back in Leipzig with the extraordinary
@Gewandhaus
. Performing Mendelssohn’s ‘Paulus’ with our incredible soloists, Julia Kleiter, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Werner Güra, Georg Zeppenfeld and the fantastic MDR Rundfunkchor was an amazing experience.
📸: Gert Mothes
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Performing again with the fantastic
@SeongJinCho
and the
@BostonSymphony
last week was such a joy!
Please do join us this week at Symphony Hall for a programme of Britten and Shostakovich, where we will be joined by Augustin Hadelich and Matthias Goerne 🎶
📸: Hilary Scott
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