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41 hours of Wagner
Over the next few weeks, Richard Wagner will be Philippe Jordan’s special focus: in May and June, he will conduct the complete Nibelungentetralogie twice and before that the premiere series of Tannhäuser. The latter will be Jordan’s fourth new Wagner production at the Vienna State Opera after Meistersinger, Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde. The Tannhäuser...
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Philippe Jordan conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Philippe Jordan will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from January 16-21, 2025. The concert will feature Tchaikovsky’s passionate Sixth Symphony, filled with melancholy, longing, and brass chorales the composer described as putting his “whole soul into”. Played by Yefim Bronfman, the first part will feature Beethoven’s majestic and noble 3rd Piano Concerto.
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Philippe Jordan to become Music Director of the Orchestre National de France in 2027
Sibyle Veil, Présidente-directrice générale of Radio France, and Michel Orier, Radio France’s Directeur de la musique et de la création, are pleased to announce the appointment of Philippe Jordan as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. He will take up the role on 1st September 2027. With this appointment Philippe Jordan follows in...
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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
September 2019Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
For the first time in their history, the Wiener Symphoniker now release a complete Beethoven symphonies cycle. The Wiener Symphoniker wrote music history with the first performances of works by Bruckner, Ravel and Schoenberg. And under the baton of such illustrious music directors as Wilhelm Furtwangler, Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini or Georges Pretre they acquired worldwide fame for their unique Viennese sound.