He is the absolute superstar of the oboe, cor anglais, and oboe d'amore: Albrecht Mayer from Bamberg, principal oboe of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1992 and also a celebrated soloist and conductor, touring the world. He will be returning to us during Advent 2025. He will be bringing with him two beloved classics that are inextricably linked to Christmas: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and music from Humperdinck's fairytale opera Hansel and Gretel . But it only becomes truly cozy and intimate when Albrecht Mayer plays his Bach arrangements—sometimes with choir participation: Christmas concerts couldn't be more beautiful, atmospheric, or festive!

Christmas With Albrecht Mayer

Meistersinger Hall

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Dvorana Union

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Forum am Schlosspark

Gasteig HP8

Meistersingerhalle

An absolute highlight of our anniversary season – this concert with music whose orchestral power and splendor of sound, along with its breathtakingly virtuosic violin performance, will give the audience a rollercoaster of emotions and make the Meistersingerhalle vibrate. The Violin Concerto by Benjamin Britten, the greatest British composer of the 20th century, is a great neo-Romantic work. Written in the summer of 1939, on the eve of World War II, it is permeated by dark forebodings and visions of horror, but also filled with those positive creative forces that transform great works of art into a metaphor for overcoming. Gustav Mahler, too, was a visionary and, in the all-encompassing stylistic diversity of his music at the time, a prophet of postmodernism. As in all his symphonies, in his "First" of 1888, he looks in two directions: back, full of nostalgic longing for the lost paradises of a good old time, and visionary ahead into a vague future—sometimes filled with fear by apocalyptic horrors, sometimes intoxicated by a boundlessly optimistic faith in the future.

Britten's Violin Concerto & Mahler's Titan

Rarely has the mutual respect between Haydn and Mozart been so clear than in Haydn's 95 and Mozart's last symphony. Both start out serious and in a minor key before working their way toward radiant finales. Composed three years apart, these pieces are milestones in Viennese Classical and modern music of the late 18th century.

Mozart – Haydn - Shosta­ko­vich

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Late Romantic, atmospheric, dramatic, beautiful: the Shakespeare tone poem Hamlet and Ophelia by Edward MacDowell, the first US composer to achieve international acclaim. He was still strongly influenced by European tradition: lots of Liszt, a bit of Brahms, a dash of Edvard Grieg - that was the mix. The first true musical Americana emerged with ragtime, jazz, and the popular music influenced by them. George Gershwin was a pioneer in the fusion of these genres with classical music. Master arranger Robert Russell Bennett has combined the hits from his opera Porgy and Bess into a colorful panorama in his Symphonic Picture . The southern part of the continent also sends its greetings with Rhythm of the Americas by US jazz and fusion musician Bob Mintzer. Afro-Caribbean, jazz, and much more combine to create a fiery mix in this concert for saxophone quartet and orchestra. At the helm: the Israeli-American conductor Nimrod David Pfeffer, closely associated with the New York Met and the Lyric Opera Company of Guatemala.

Four Saxophones And Porgy & Bess

In the concert series "Dreiklang" ("Triad"), the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg is leaving its usual concert halls to discover exciting venues in Nuremberg. Music from various centuries, programmes based on the location, and space-consuming sonic concepts lead to new (aural) impressions and promise an intense musical examination of the venues. General musical director Roland Böer and the conductors of the Staatsphilharmonie invite you to take a fresh look at the familiar and get curious.

Triad at the Deutsches Museum Nuremberg - Museum of the Future

Deutsches Museum Nürnberg

The Viennese have the waltz * On the Beautiful Blue Danube* , the Praguers have the tone poem *The Moldau* , and the New Yorkers have the musical *West Side Story* . But we Nurembergers have Richard Wagner's opera * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg * as the "music of our city" – the greatest tribute to the Franconian metropolis ever composed. The prelude to Act 1, relatively short in duration but monumental in its impact, is a veritable symphonic poem that encompasses all of the opera's central plot motifs. Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3, dedicated to Wagner in its original version, is monumental in every respect. Between these two monuments of late Romanticism is a famous masterpiece of early Classical music: Haydn's virtuoso C major concerto featuring the young Japanese rising star of the cello world, Michiaki Ueno. Benjamin Reiners, GMD in Chemnitz and conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, will be conducting. He has been a guest with us several times since 2012.

Bruckner And The Mastersingers

CONCERT CHOIR LGV NÜRNBERG - Verdi's Requiem

For Richard Wagner, it was the "apotheosis of dance," and some therefore refer to it as "The Choreographic." But Romain Rolland summed it up more succinctly when he called it an "orgy of rhythm" – Beethoven's 7th Symphony, pulsating with a rhythmic drive that ultimately builds to wild ecstasy in the inexorably forward-rushing finale. There's no stopping it – that's the rhythm you simply have to go with! But Maurice Ravel, the composer of Bolero , also celebrates an "orgy of rhythm" with La Valse , in 3/4 time. The piece, subtitled Poème chorégraphique (Choreographic Poem), is a "crazy" homage to the Viennese waltz. Between the two "choreographic" works: the premiere of Roland Kunz's Three Late Songs . The soloist is Turkish mezzo-soprano Seray Pinar, a member of the Académie of the Paris Opéra since 2022. In August 2024, she also sang in the final concert of the Young Singer Project at the Salzburg Festival.

Darlington Conducts Beethoven's Seventh

Two deeply religious composers open up the concert season of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg in the Meistersingerhalle. Olivier Messiaen hoped to use his first large, suggestive orchestral work Les Offrandes oubliées to turn the colours of church windows into sound. Anton Bruckner was no less spiritual in his own goals for his music. In his 7th Symphony, which marked his breakthrough as a great symphonic composer, he most clearly describes humanity's ascent from hardship and the joys of life toward divine light.

Bruck­ner – Mes­sia­en

Chic fashion, great cars, fine food, and excellent wine are what many people immediately associate with the Italian way of life. But Bella Italia naturally has much more to offer, especially when it comes to music: "Italia, Terra di Musica!" - Italy, the land of music! Opera and bel canto are among its trademarks – the "beautiful singing" with which the opera's heroes and heroines express their great emotions. Bel canto highlights – from voluptuous cantabile to igniting bravura arias – are presented by the young British bass-baritone William Thomas, who has already made a name for himself through performances in Milan and London, Vienna, and Paris. Richard Strauss made "Bella Italia" a declaration of love with his composed recollections of his trip to Italy in 1886. The piece is titled "From Italy ," and takes us through the Campagna to Naples.

Belcanto With William Thomas

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

Melancholy in its most beautiful romantic form dominates the program of the 8th Philharmonic Concert, which Frankfurt's General Music Director Thomas Guggeis will lead the State Philharmonic Orchestra through. The premonition of the imminent death of his son-in-law Richard Wagner and the funeral gondolas of Venice inspired Franz Liszt's piano piece, whose undulating 6/8 time in turn inspired the minimalist Adams to his arrangement. Wagner's five songs are based on his hopeless love for Mathilde Wesendonck. Even in Hans Werner Henze's version, they foreshadow "Tristan". Sergei Rachmaninoff was a master of combining beauty and melancholy, combining deep emotionality with captivating fullness of sound in his 2nd Symphony.

Salvation

"When we touch each other with music," wrote Leonard Bernstein, "we touch each other's hearts, minds and souls - all at once." Indeed, like no other art, music opens up access to the inner world of people. Also and above all to the souls and hearts of people with dementia. Our afternoon concert offers those affected and their families the opportunity to experience music together and thus continue to be able to participate in social and cultural life. Experience an afternoon of classical evergreens that awaken memories of old times. Because nothing brings the past back and makes it come alive in us like music.

Concert For People With Dementia, Relatives And Everyone

More? Sea! For the brilliant end of the season of our symphonic concerts, we're heading to the water. Debussy's impressionistic mega-masterpiece La Mer takes us to a luminous Mediterranean scenery. This is what summer by the sea sounds like! You want more! Voilà: With Frank Bridges' suite of four sound pictures The Sea, we travel to the coast of the southern English county of Sussex - sometimes in sunlight, sometimes in moonlight or in a storm. The piece has probably never been heard in Nuremberg. A real discovery! "When I heard the piece for the first time, I was thrown off track," admitted Bridges' composition student Benjamin Britten. He gets his due here with his vocal-instrumental serenade. Six poems from five centuries of English poetry form the basis. They conjure up evening and nighttime moods with effective horn playing and haunting tenor singing. The Symphoniker's solo horn player Matthias Nothhelfer and the Glasgow-born tenor Thomas Walker will provide solo brilliance.

Darlington With Debussys La Mer

Defeat? Triumph! In 2006 he was our guest for the first time and delivered a non plus ultra interpretation of Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony. Unforgettable! In 2008 he came back and conducted Respighi's Fontane di Roma in a congenial manner . Impressive! Now he is coming again: Alan Buribayev, the master of the baton from Kazakhstan, former GMD in Meiningen, former head of the Het Brabants Orkest and now head of the Astana Opera in his homeland. This time he will conduct the overture to the Aeschylus opera L'Oresteia by Tchaikovsky's contemporary Sergei Taneyev and a Mozart concerto alongside the young Dutch violinist Hawijch Elders, who won 1st prize and three special prizes at the Henri Marteau International Violin Competition in 2023. Finally, Tchaikovsky's "Fifth" will be performed. Like the Beethoven symphony with the same number, it is a kind of "symphony of fate" that overwhelmingly presents the "Per Aspera Ad Astra", the dramaturgy of "Through Night to Light". Defeat? Triumph!

From Mozart To Tchaikovsky

In 1812, Beethoven wrote a love letter to an unknown lady that has occupied generations of researchers but also inspired musicians. In his violin concerto, which he wrote in 2019 for the violinist Midori, Detlev Glanert sees the words in Beethoven's famous letter as notes and the declaration of love as music. After the overture by Beethoven's student Ferdinand Ries, the master himself takes center stage in the 7th Philharmonic Concert: with the cheerful, thoughtful piano piece "Andante favori", which Roland Böer arranged for orchestra, and with his always surprising and not very triumphant 8th Symphony.

Immortally in love

Old? New! March 2025 will mark the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Bizet's Carmen . It is still probably the most popular of all operas - a hit album made up of countless immortal hits. And the two concert suites present these hits in interrupted order. Old? New! At the podium: audience favorite Gordon Hamilton, the Australian who has chosen to live in Berlin, who, as always when he comes to us, is also bringing a brand new work of his own to the premiere: A Golden Thread , a golden thread that gradually weaves through the string orchestra. In contrast, the most original cello concerto in music history will be played before the break - that of the piano-playing and composing "enfant terrible" Friedrich Gulda. His concerto for cello and wind orchestra is a unique musical surprise package that explodes when opened, setting off musical sparks. From big band blues to church fair music, everything is included! The fireworks of punchlines are set off by the German star cellist Raphaela Gromes, who enchanted our audience in 2023 with the concert by Frederick Delius.

Bizet's Carmen And Gromes On The Cello

The concert series "Dreiklang" combines exciting locations with new concert impressions. This time, conductor Sándor Károlyi and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra are referring to the history of the Orpheum in the St. Johannis district, which is now used as an event hall. In the past, the Orpheum was not only a popular cinema, but also a drinking hall and mattress camp.

Dreiklang im Orpheum

Orpheum Nuremberg

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