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the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra begins its 80th concert season! With their chief conductor Jonathan Darlington at the helm and the French star pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian at his side, they present music brimming with exuberant vitality and thrilling verve, with virtuoso brilliance and festive splendor, opening their anniversary season. It begins with Mozart's magnificent and fast-paced Haffner Symphony . Its first movement "must be quite fiery," wrote the composer, its finale "as swift as possible." For Robert Schumann, the "Mozart of the 19th century" was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His Piano Concerto No. 1 is a work full of youthful vigor, a firework of virtuoso pianistic eloquence. Finally, the crowning glory is an early symphonic masterpiece by the Czech national classic Antonín Dvorák – his "Fifth", both rurally idyllic and dramatically powerful in character.

Opening With Gasparian & Darlington

Meistersinger Hall

Travel through the seasons with Tchaikovsky, experience the great operatic moments with Liszt: Much is possible on the piano, as demonstrated not only by the two composers, but also by pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian. In his dazzling concert at the lakeside palace of Monrepos, the young French-Armenian musician will first lead the audience through Tchaikovsky's twelve character pieces – one dedicated to each month, with three pieces depicting the special features of a particular season. Poetic settings of specific themes such as Carnival and the approaching spring, the harvest and hunting season, the melancholy of autumn, and, finally, the joy of Christmas will be heard. Liszt also took great delight in the operatic music of his contemporaries Wagner and Verdi, and paid homage to them by transforming the core scenes and original gestures of the operas into multi-layered, virtuoso piano paraphrases.

Pianist

Jean-Paul Gasparian

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Past events

Sep 27, 2025

Opening With Gasparian & Darlington · Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

28 - 29 Jul, 2025

Jean-paul Gasparian · Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Il trovatore by Verdi

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 1 by Mendelssohn

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

Piano in Tannhäuser by Wagner

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Piano in Rigoletto by Verdi

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Piano in Aida by Verdi

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Piano in Les saisons by Tchaikovsky

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

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