Concert #3 – Orchestral works, Thomas Adès, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Nicolas Alstaedt
© Mathias Benguigui, Marco Borggreve, Droits Réservés
Full
- Prices
- 35€ - 60€
- Date
- 16 November 2024 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Hours
- 8.30 p.m.
The final chapter of Thomas Adès’s residency is dedicated to joy and celebration!
Thomas Adès, born in London in 1971, is an extraordinary musician, pianist, composer and conductor with a thirty-year career of regular triumphs in France and throughout Europe. For his last concert, featuring the prestigious Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and soloist Nicolas Altstaedt, the composer is choosing to express joy and lyricism through atypical works from the past; the joy in Jacques Ibert’s Divertissement (1930) and the Concertino (1926) by Leos Janaček, two works with neoclassical aesthetics; the lyricism of Haydn’s remarkable Symphony No. 64, straddling Baroque reminiscences and pre-Romanticism found in another form in the French creation Over the Sea, his recent composition for cello and orchestra.
The powerfully expressive Lieux Retrouvés (2016) is at the convergence of these two sentiments, while rippling with astoundingly diverse influences echoing the three concerts of his residency.
Programme:
- Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 64 in A Major, “Tempora Mutantur”
- Thomas Adès, Shanty – Over the Sea, (French creation)
- Leoš Janáček, Concertino for Piano and Chamber Ensemble
- Jacques Ibert, Divertissement
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. His compositions include three operas: he conducted the premiere of the most recent, The Exterminating Angel, at the 2016 Salzburg Festival and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Royal Opera House, London. He conducted the premiere and revival of The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, and a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and in November 2022 at La Scala, Milan. He led the world premiere of his full-evening ballet The Dante Project at Covent Garden, and conducted it in May 2023 at the Opéra Garnier, Paris. He will conduct a new production of The Exterminating Angel in 2024 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris.
He frequently leads performances of his orchestral works Asyla (1997), Tevot (2007), Polaris (2010), Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (2005), In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (2008); Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra (2013); and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2019). His compositions also include numerous celebrated chamber and solo works.
September 2023 saw Thomas Adès conduct the Gewandhausorchester as part of his two-season residency with the ensemble which sees him appear as a conductor, pianist and composer in various concert formats. This autumn Thomas also began a two-season residency with the Hallé orchestra, which sees him conduct two orchestral concerts and curate a chamber programme. For the first appearance on 28 October, Thomas conducted the UK premiere of Tower, as well as the first UK concert performance of his ballet Purgatorio, alongside his Märchentänze for violin and orchestra with Anthony Marwood, which received its UK premiere at last year’s BBC Proms.
Thomas Adès has been the Artistic Partner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2016 and he conducts the orchestra every year in Boston and at Tanglewood. He also regularly coaches Piano and Chamber Music at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove.
As conductor, Thomas appears regularly with the Los Angeles and London Philharmonic orchestras, the Boston, London, BBC, Finnish Radio and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome. In opera, in addition to The Exterminating Angel, he has conducted The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House and Zürich Opera, and the premieres of three operas by Gerald Barry, including the Los Angeles world premieres of The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, of which he also gave the European premiere at Covent Garden. Recent highlights include Thomas’s debut concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. In Summer 2022 he conducted the world premiere of Air for violin and orchestra at the Lucerne Festival, a Roche commission for Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra.
His CD recording of The Tempest from the Royal Opera House (EMI) won the Contemporary category of the 2010 Gramophone Awards; his DVD of the production from the Metropolitan Opera was awarded the Diapason d'Or de l'année (2013), Best Opera recording (2014 Grammy Awards) and Music DVD Recording of the Year (2014 ECHO Klassik Awards).
His piano engagements have included solo recitals at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) in New York and the Wigmore Hall in London, and concerto appearances with the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recent piano releases include an album of solo piano music by Janáček and a live album of Winterreise with Ian Bostridge. His solo disc of Janáček’s piano music won the 2018 Janáček medal.
Nicolas Altstaedt
German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is one of the most sought-after and versatile artists today. As a soloist, conductor, and artistic director, he performs repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary, playing on period and modern instruments.
Season 2023/24 includes tours with Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées with Philippe Herreweghe and Arcangelo with Jonathan Cohen. Altstaedt makes his debut with Bamberger Symphoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and NAC Orchestra, Ottawa, while re-invitations include London Philharmonic Orchestra with Ed Gardner, amongst others.
Since his highly acclaimed debut with Wiener Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival, recent notable residencies and collaborations include Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg with Teodor Currentzis, Helsinki Festival with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Robin Ticciati, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Philippe Herreweghe, Münchner Philharmoniker with Krzysztof Urbanski, European Union Youth Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko, all the BBC orchestras including with John Storgårds, Orchestre National de France with Cristian Măcelaru, NHK and Yomiuri Nippon (with Kazuki Yamada) symphony orchestras, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney and New Zealand symphony orchestras.
Altstaedt regularly performs on period instruments with ensembles such as Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, B’Rock with René Jacobs, La Cetra with Andrea Marcon, Academy of Ancient Music, and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. As a conductor, he has forged close partnerships with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Münchener Kammerorchester and Les Violons du Roy.
Joint appearances with composers such as Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, Thomas Larcher, Fazıl Say and Sofia Gubaidulina consolidate his reputation as an outstanding interpreter of contemporary music. Wolfgang Rihm, Sebastian Fagerlund and Helena Winkelman have recently written concertos and other works for him. New concertos by Marton Illés and Erkki-Sven Tüür receive their premieres this season and by Liza Lim in 2024/25.
In 2012, Altstaedt succeeded Gidon Kremer as Artistic Director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and from 2014 to 2021 he succeeded Ádám Fischer in this position at the Haydn Philharmonie at the Ésterházy Palace touring with the orchestra to Japan and China in recent seasons.
As a chamber musician, Altstaedt’s partners include Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Pekka Kuusisto, Lawrence Power, Antoine Tamestit, Alexander Lonquich, Mao Fujita, Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford, Quatuor Ébène and Belcea Quartet. He performs at both Salzburg Mozart and Summer festivals, Verbier Festival, BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, Prague Spring Festival and Musikfest Bremen.
His most recent recording for his Lockenhaus Festival garnered the BBC Music Magazine 2020 Chamber Award and Gramophone Classical Music Award 2020. He received the BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award 2017 for his recording of CPE Bach Concertos on Hyperion with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen and the AFAS Edison Klassiek 2017 for his recital recording with Fazıl Say on Warner Classics. Altstaedt is a recipient of the Credit Suisse Award in 2010, Beethovenring Bonn 2015, Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg 2018 and was a 2010–12 BBC New Generation Artist.
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
“Impassioned, richly hued playing”, “transparent and detailed”, “thrilling” : with the unbridled energy of its performances, dedication and exceptional sound, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen captivates both music critics and concertgoers around the world.
The ensemble’s success is founded on a passion for detail and meticulous analysis of musical works and their composers. Venturing beyond conventional interpretation, the musicians take a fresh and authentic approach, offering listeners fascinating new insights into familiar pieces of music ranging from Baroque, Classic and Romantic through to modern. The musical quality and precision of the orchestra’s playing is rooted in the soloist mastery, curiosity and passion of every one of its 41 members.
Inseparably associated with the orchestra’s worldwide successes is its Artistic Director, Estonian star conductor and Grammy Award-winner Paavo Järvi. Under his direction, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has raised its profile as an international world-class orchestra that enthralls audiences around the world with its performances.
