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Called “the fast rising star of conducting” Klaus Mäkelä returns to conduct a program highlighting the works of British conductors: Elgar’s much loved Cello Concerto, and Walton’s hugely sonic, outlandishly exuberant oratorio (featuring the celebrated baritone Thomas Hampson).

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Elgar's Cello Concerto

Severance Music Center

Klaus Mäkelä, “the fast-rising star of conducting,” returns to lead a program highlighting the works of British composers: Elgar’s much-loved Cello Concerto, and Walton’s outlandishly exuberant oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast, featuring celebrated baritone Thomas Hampson. A vibrant opener by Jimmy López Bellido takes listeners on a quick excursion to South America filled with festive melodies and rollicking rhythms inspired by Afro-Peruvian folk music.

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Two vocal superstars—mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and baritone Thomas Hampson (in his Festival debut)—join forces with acclaimed pianist Bradley Moore for the Festival’s celebratory 50th Anniversary Special Recital.

50th anniversary Special Recital with Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson and Bradley Moore

Lensic Performing Arts Center

New Century opens its 30th Anniversary Season with a gripping musical radio drama that will transport you back to the seismic cultural shifts happening in 1938’s Berlin. Gathering clouds of war in Europe loomed large over the events of that year, fueling the songwriters of the era to create works stunning in their candor, humor and commentary about the rapid changes in German society and growing threats of violence. In this innovative multimedia production, Music Director Daniel Hope and New Century will take you on a fascinating musical tour of works by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, and more, while vocalists Thomas Hampson and Horst Maria Merz narrate the action in the dual roles of radio broadcasters and singers. You won’t want to touch that dial!

Berlin 1938: Broadcasts from a Vanishing Society

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

Together with the same fellow musicians as in the opening concert, Daniel Hope ends his carte blanche by inviting the acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson to highlight another iconic facet of English music: his proud affection for popular traditions embodied by the immense repertoire of folksongs, whose kaleidoscope of emotions and colours has touched the hearts not only of islanders but also of continental Europeans, such as Haydn and Beethoven, who produced beautiful pieces in English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish tones.

Thomas Hampson

Baritone

Events

11 - 13 Apr, 2024

Elgar's Cello Concerto · The Cleveland Orchestra

11 - 13 Apr, 2024

Elgar’s Cello Concerto · The Cleveland Orchestra

Aug 17, 2023

50th anniversary Special Recital with Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson and Bradley Moore · Santa Fe Chamber Music festival

16 - 18 Sep, 2022

Berlin 1938: Broadcasts from a Vanishing Society · New Century Chamber Orchestra

Jul 22, 2021

Daniel Hope & Friends III – Menuhin in London III · Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Belshazzar's Feast by Walton

The Cleveland Orchestra

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