Gewandhausorchester, Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons

Nelsons conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich

like concert
Start Free Trial
Video Director: Ute Feudel - Artist: Gewandhausorchester, Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons - Soloist: Baiba Skride - Producer: Accentus Music - Conductor: Andris Nelsons - Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich & Igor Stravinsky - Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany | 103 min | 2020 | TV-G

Nelsons conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich

In May 2019, the new principal conductor of the Gewandhaus, Andris Nelsons, presented Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 with his orchestra in combination with Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with outstanding violinist Baiba Skride as the soloist. In this composition, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story and gets into a vicious circle of ostinato Passacaglia bass lines again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. Tchaikovsky initially thought his 'Symphony of Fate' was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. It was probably the composer's nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. Between this two works, Skride performs Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Violin.

Because you like Gewandhausorchester, Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons

The Berlin Philharmonic in TokyoBerliner Philharmoniker, Hilary Hahn & Mariss Jansons
Nelsons conducts Mendelssohn and BergAndris Nelsons, Baiba Skride & Gewandhausorchester
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36Les Dissonances & David Grimal
Nelsons and Opolais perform DvořákKristine Opolais, Andris Nelsons & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 77Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Fumiaki Miura & Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67Les Dissonances & David Grimal