In recent years Andris Nelsons has appeared
on the stage of the Philharmonie leading the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna
Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for whom he has served as chief
conductor for close to a decade; at this year’s Musikfest the Berlin audience
had the opportunity to hear him conduct the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, where
he has been musical director since 2018. For their appearance, the orchestra
presented a programme of stark contrasts in which the quiet anguish of Shostakovich’s
Chamber Symphony and the cataclysmic force of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Der
Zorn Gottes were held in fine balance by unshakable optimism of Beethoven’s
Seventh Symphony. If the selection was diverse in both its moods and its
chronological range – from the early nineteenth century to the current
half-decade – the evening was unified…
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