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The 6th Philharmonic Concert will feature a world premiere reflecting our times. Jörg Widmann, who has been in close artistic contact with Kent Nagano, especially since the great success of his ARCHE for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, recently wrote a decidedly peace-loving work in view of the global wars: "Cantata in tempore belli". Jens Harzer takes on the role of the speaker. Ida Aldrian sings the alto part.

The works of the 3rd Chamber Concerto are all about love and solidarity in word and sound: When Johannes Brahms set about composing the “Two Songs”, it was his close friendship with his long-time companion, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms wanted to create a musical monument to his love and composed the “Spiritual Lullaby” based on a text by Emanuel Geibel for his wedding, but withdrew the composition and revised it. The composer then published both songs together with “Quenched Longing” based on a text by Friedrich Rückert to mark another happy event: the baptism of his godchild, Joseph Joachim’s son. In both compositions, one can hear the unbridled joy of life, born of love. Leoš Janáček's (late) love for Kamilla Stösslová, who was almost 40 years younger than him, was, however, under a completely different, much worse star. In his second string quartet, with the programmatic nickname "Intimate Letters", his feelings for the young woman are omnipresent. Just a year before his death, Janáček left behind the frivolous testimony of a great love: eruptive, provocative and passionate.

Ten years of music & science, ten years of two in one: chamber concerts and lectures are closely linked in the themed concerts. This season, the anniversary provides an opportunity for an innovation - for the first time, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra is cooperating with "Science Slam". For the three dates in February and March 2025, the speakers will come from the ranks of the entertaining institution that has been bringing new research knowledge to young people's evening or even nighttime stages in Hamburg in an understandable and appealing way since 2009. You can therefore expect amusing speakers who are very familiar with bringing the latest research findings to the stage in a short, crisp and scientifically correct way. In order to convey the message in an understandable and entertaining way, all aids are permitted.

Dance, language and fantastic images: the three orchestral works in this concert programme contain a great deal of creative energy. Ravel wrote "Daphnis et Chloé" as ballet music for Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes. However, the composition initially enjoyed great success as suites on the concert stage, where its genius comes into its own. Ravel had a "great musical fresco" in mind for the ancient love story of the two foundlings, "less concerned with archaism than with loyalty to the Greece of my dreams". In outstanding colours, he pours the rising sun, the song of the nymph and an ecstatic final frenzy into a painting from the early 20th century.

The Orchestra Academy of the Philharmonic State Orchestra prepares highly talented young instrumentalists for a career as professional musicians in a large international orchestra. The 15 academy students are part of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra for two years. At their annual chamber concert, the stage belongs to them alone for one evening: sometimes in classical, sometimes in unusual formations, they present their skills in the Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie.

This season, the Philharmonic State Orchestra's Music and Science series is celebrating its 10th anniversary. A reason to look ahead! To the future, to what science and music will have to say in 2025. As a new cooperation partner on the path to unlimited possibilities, we welcome "Science Slam", who are experts in bringing the latest research findings to the stage in a short, crisp and scientifically correct manner. In order to convey the message in an understandable and entertaining way, all aids are permitted.

Giacomo Puccini stands for grand opera and grand emotions. It is not widely known that the composer devoted himself to chamber music alongside his rich operatic output, and even tried out the "grand" form in it. Most of his works were written during his time as a student in Milan as a testament to his love of experimentation - including his Tre minuetti. From Italy he traveled to Japan with Toshio Hosokawa: he draws his inspiration from the connection between nature and man. Similar to the art of Japanese calligraphy, he sets note after note like a brushstroke, creating the most beautiful sound paintings. Camille Saint-Saëns was also an artist of timbres: his fantasy for harp and violin represents the gesture of French music par excellence - lightness and elegance meet clarity and haunting charm. Ludwig van Beethoven was by no means light-hearted when he set about writing his String Quartet in E flat major. A few months earlier, the Battle of Aspern, one of the bloodiest massacres of the Napoleonic Wars, had raged outside the gates of Vienna. A faint hope arose because Napoleon was unable to achieve a clear victory. The composer put some of this hope in the face of brooding melancholy into his music.

This season, the Philharmonic State Orchestra's Music and Science series is celebrating its 10th anniversary. A reason to look ahead! To the future, to what science and music will have to say in 2025. As a new cooperation partner on the path to unlimited possibilities, we welcome "Science Slam", who are experts in bringing the latest research findings to the stage in a short, crisp and scientifically correct manner. In order to convey the message in an understandable and entertaining way, all aids are permitted.

In these concerts, THE Czech composer of the 19th century meets THE Czech composer of the 20th: we are talking about Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů.

I have played "Death and the Maiden" with my siblings since childhood, naively and full of joy. Today with the certainty and knowledge that Schubert's music reflects everything without words: despair, fear, gentleness and consolation.