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Composed between 1805 and 1806, during a particularly happy period for Beethoven, who was experiencing an intense and significant romance with Josephine Brunswick, the Fourth Piano Concerto , with the lyrical nature of its themes, seems to faithfully capture the composer's joy. The Concerto was first performed privately in the home of Prince Lobkowitz in March 1807, and in public on 22 December 1808 at the Theater an der Wien, within the famous Academy where the composer also presented his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies . Composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt left us a very detailed account of that evening in a letter:

“We sat there from half past six until half past ten in the freezing cold, and we learned that even beautiful things can get boring. Poor Beethoven, who could have earned his first and only profit of the year from this concert, had had difficulties and disagreements in organizing it. […] The singers and orchestra were made up of very heterogeneous elements. It had not even been possible to obtain a dress rehearsal of all the pieces, full of very difficult passages. You will be amazed at all that this most fertile genius and tireless worker accomplished during these four hours. First a Pastoral Symphony or memories of country life, full of lively pictures and images. 

Parabola Romantica

Politeama Garibaldi - Palermo

After opening the season with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7, Chief Conductor Marcus Bosch concludes the Philharmonic Concert series with the composer's Symphony No. 9 – and it's time to say goodbye. Composed in Toblach and New York, this large-scale symphony is Mahler's last completed work. The then New York Chief Conductor looks back with nostalgia, bids farewell, and seems to capitulate with his visions. The result was an impressive and bold sonic edifice, with which he builds a world using every means at his disposal – ultimately crossing the threshold to modernity.

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10th Philharmonic Concert / Farewell

Volkstheater Rostock - Big House

5. Classic Light / Request Concert

Volkstheater Rostock

Alban Gerhardt, one of today's leading cellists, accepted the Rostock invitation and, with his technical perfection and profound musicality, promises an extraordinary concert event. The versatile artist will perform Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2, which, between the lines, was intended as an ironic response to the double standards of the Soviet officials who denounced him during Stalin's lifetime and later courted him. Written for Mstislav Rostropovich, the concerto premiered with the legendary cellist on the composer's 60th birthday in Moscow on September 25, 1966.

9th Philharmonic Concert / Finally

Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture to Romeo and Juliet is considered his first fully-fledged orchestral composition, combining dramatic contrasts with ancient Russian sounds. Inspired by Shakespeare and stimulated by his musician friend Mili Balakirev, Tchaikovsky unfolded a richly colored musical painting full of drama and melancholy.

6th Philharmonic Concert / Dramas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johann Strauss and others

3. Classic Light / Carnival

Their paths converged in Vienna – those of the composers Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden, Johannes Brahms, and Hermann Grädener. Mrs. Kralik von Meyrswalden, the daughter of a Bohemian glass industrialist, had come to the music capital from Linz. The two somewhat older gentlemen came from Northern Germany: Brahms, as is well known, from Hamburg, and Grädener from Kiel. Grädener's father, Carl Georg, born in Rostock, maintained close contact with the greats of the music world. Even Clara Schumann stopped by the Grädeners on her travels. Hermann Grädener, in turn, became a friend of Johannes Brahms in Vienna. His piano concerto, written in the 1880s, is among the discoveries that pianist Oliver Triendl has been pursuing for years.

5th Philharmonic Concert / Treasures

New Year's Eve concert

With the Karl Forster Choir and the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock

Rossini: Stabat Mater

Berlin Cathedral

For the fifth time, Chief Conductor Marcus Bosch and the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock are transforming the showroom at the Audi Zentrum Rostock into a concert hall. Star clarinettist Sebastian Manz will be performing at this extraordinary venue for this year's Mozart+ classical evening . He will be performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famous Clarinet Concerto. Written two months before his death, the Viennese classicist created arguably the most significant, profound, and beautiful work of the entire genre. The slow movement, with its otherworldly melancholy, is among the top ten classical hits.

Mozart +

Audi Zentrum Rostock Hansa Automobile Rostock GmbH

Le Trouvère is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, a French version of Il Trovatore. The story is about two brothers, separated at birth under tragic circumstances, who unknowingly become enemies. Manrico, has been raised as a troubadour, while the other, Count di Luna, grows up as a nobleman. Their rivalry leads to war, love triangles, and a tragic ending when one brother accidentally orders the execution of the other. They do not realise they are brothers until much later. Their rivalry becomes deadly, especially as both fall in love with the same woman, Leonora.

Le Trouvère

National Opera House

A special highlight is to be expected at the end of the Philharmonic season with Raphaela Gromes, probably the most successful German cellist of our time (Rondo Magazine). In 2023, the exceptional artist enchanted around 3,000 listeners with her virtuoso, expressive and technically perfect playing at the annual Classical Night event in Rostock Zoo. In June 2025, she will return with Edward Elgar's famous Cello Concerto in her luggage - the Briton's last major orchestral work with the passionate and at the same time wistful tone. Written in 1919, it is a work of farewell and a look back at a time long gone.

10th Philharmonic Concert / From London

Hall 207

When Bedřich Smetana began writing tone poems, he was probably modeled on the compositions of Franz Liszt, as the latter was well known as the father of the genre. The Bohemian later said that he wanted to outdo the master with his own symphonic poems . Má Vlast goes back to the idea of ​​portraying themes from his homeland in a cycle of tone poems - as an orchestral counterpart to his confessional opera Libussa . Originally intended as a tetralogy, Smetana later composed two more parts. When the complete cycle was premiered in Prague in 1882, the composer, who had since become completely deaf, reaped great success with this work dominated by national themes, which quickly conquered the concert stage with its impressively fresh musical design, especially Moldau , which was often separated from the cycle and performed separately .

9th Philharmonic Concert / Moldau Plus

Is there a more bombastic life's work than that of John Williams with 54 Oscar nominations, 68 Grammy nominations and almost all composition commissions for the Spielberg films? It's almost reminiscent of Mozart and Da Ponte. To be honest, the eight billion people on this earth are probably more familiar with the Star Wars fanfares than Don Giovanni. Incidentally, the Hollywood sound was invented by Erich Wolfgang Korngold...

Big Business

Mannheimer Rosengarten

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, an Austrian composer, moved to Hollywood in 1934 on the advice of theater and film director Max Reinhardt and against the backdrop of the emerging Nazi regime. There he began composing film music.

Guest Concert

Das Wormser, Theater Kultur und Tagungszentrum

Johannes Brahms's Fifth Symphony - as conductor Otto Klemperer jokingly described Arnold Schönberg's arrangement of Brahms' piano quartet - is on the chief conductor's desk for the February concert. At Klemperer's suggestion, Schönberg arranged this chamber music for orchestra in 1937. " The arrangement sounds so beautiful that you don't even want to listen to the original quartet anymore ," said Klemperer after the premiere in Los Angeles. " All I had to do was transfer this sound to the orchestra and that's all I did ," explained Schönberg. His intention was to stick strictly to Brahms' style and not to go further than he himself would have gone had he been alive today .

6th Philharmonic Concert / Sustainable

Baron Scarpia collects trophies. And Floria Tosca, the celebrated opera diva, is to be his greatest achievement! He knows that she would reject him sharply - so it suits him, the unscrupulous police chief of Rome, just fine that Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, is suspected of having helped an alleged enemy of the state. Scarpia forces Floria to listen to what Mario experiences in prison. In all kindness, he offers her a way out: to spend a night of love with him! But the singer is cleverer than he thinks and makes sure that he will not survive Tosca's kiss. But has she already won?
Giacomo Puccini's blockbuster is one of the most haunting, emotional operas ever. Some of the arias from it are still hits today - such as Vissi d'arte , when Floria Tosca sings about her life for art, to which political power games are completely alien. Or Cavaradossi's famous tenor solo E lucevan le stelle , which has been causing storms of applause during the orchestral postlude for over 120 years.
Director Christian Poewe and chief conductor Marcus Bosch will open the season in the main house with Tosca .

Tosca

Staatstheater Mainz

With four performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, under the direction of its chief conductor Marcus Bosch, is saying goodbye to the year 2024. In doing so, it is following a more than 100-year-old tradition from Leipzig. This work was performed there on New Year's Eve in 1918 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch, welcoming the new year 1919 with the final chorus of Schiller's Ode to Joy . There will be two performances this year in the main hall of the Rostock Volkstheater on December 31st.

As every year, the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock starts the season with three concerts as part of the MV Festival, which take place in cooperation with the summer campus of the hmt Rostock. This year's concerts in the Holy Spirit Church in Wismar, in the Bützow Collegiate Church and in the Katharinensaal of the hmt Rostock will not only feature the results of the master classes, but also well-known musicians such as the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimar, the violinist Henja Semmler, the cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and the trombonist Jamie Williams, who act as lecturers during the summer campus. The varied program of the three evenings under the direction of chief conductor Marcus Bosch presents music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns and Nino Rota.

Concerts in the Summer Campus: II. Concert

A celebration in radiant C major is to be expected at the 1st Baroque Hall Classic, which will bring together soloists, the Singakademie and the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock under the direction of their chief conductor Marcus Bosch at another venue, in the church of the University of Rostock. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's early Missa in C major, KV 317, was written for Salzburg Cathedral. Often played at coronation ceremonies of emperors and kings after Mozart's death, the work was given the title Coronation Mass . For his last symphony, Mozart also chose the key of C major, which is characterized by its majestic character. The work became the crowning conclusion of his symphonic work and was later given the nickname Jupiter in reference to the ancient prince of the gods .

1. Baroque Hall Classics Elsewhere: Choral Concert / Sunday with Mozart

Anton Bruckner described his 6th Symphony as his boldest . It was written after a long creative break and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra enjoyed it so much during a rehearsal that they applauded loudly and made a fanfare . Bruckner was unable to experience the premiere of his symphony, and especially not the success of this flowing, light-hearted and at the same time very personal work.

3rd Philharmonic Concert / Birthday Magic

The North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock is starting its new concert season passionately and legendary, this time again in the charming industrial ambience of Hall 207. Star percussionist Alexej Gerassimez has been invited as a soloist, whose phenomenal power and virtuosity will give the old walls a special vibration. The exceptional percussionist has brought with him the Concerto Leviathan by New Zealander John Psathas, which was created for the Beethoven project Pastorale , an initiative by UN Climate Change and BTHVN2020 in the year of Beethoven's 250th birthday to address climate and environmental change. Alexej Gerassimez himself premiered this concerto in 2021 in the Berlin Philharmonic.

1st Philharmonic Concert / Overwhelming

Concerts in the Summer Campus: III. Final Concert

Mozart - a master who reinvented music. His fifth and final Violin Concerto in A major, also known as the Turkish Concerto , is considered the musical high point of Mozart's earlier work. It is also popular because of its effective style, which allows the soloists a great deal of virtuosity. The 22-year-old violinist Mira Foron was a guest for the first time in 2019 to perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock.

Conductor

Marcus Bosch

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 29, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026

New Year's Eve concert · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Past events

30 - 31 Oct, 2026

Parabola Romantica · Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

14 - 16 Jun, 2026

10th Philharmonic Concert / Farewell · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphony No. 5 by Dvořák

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Conductor in Cello Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Il trovatore by Verdi

Wexford Festival Opera

Conductor in Symphony No. 8 by Shostakovich

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Songs of Travel by Williams

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Conductor in Hungarian Dances by Brahms

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by Mahler

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Stabat Mater by Rossini

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Piano Quartet in G minor by Brahms

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Captain Blood, from: Overture by Korngold

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Conductor in Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Williams

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Conductor in Clarinet Concerto by Mozart

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Overture to The Magic Harp by Schubert

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Nuvole Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra by Bröder

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 in A major by Bruckner

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Die tote Stadt Symphonic Fragments for Orchestra arranged by Thomas Dorsch (2023) by Korngold

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by Grädener

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Hymnic Symphony by Kralik

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Guarnieri

Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Conductor in Concerto No. 4 in G major for Piano and Orchestra by Beethoven

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

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