NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Augustin Hadelich / Juraj Valčuha

Horrific beauty: The works in this concert program truly offer music to indulge in, all of them nostalgic echoes of the lush orchestral sounds of the late Romantic period. But beware: Abysses lurk beneath the harmonious facade... Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock's legendary psychological thriller "Vertigo" sounds for long stretches – especially in the "love scene" – as if the composer had taken Richard Wagner's "Tristan and Isold...