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

Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 7Saito Kinen Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven & Seiji Ozawa
Mahler - Symphony No. 1Bernard Haitink & Berliner Philharmoniker
Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony Op. 110aCasco Phil & Benjamin Haemhouts
Discovering Masterpieces – MendelssohnKurt Masur, Frank-Michael Erben & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Sibelius – Symphony No. 5Fins Radio Symfonie Orkest & Hannu Lintu
Rachmaninov & Gershwin: RhapsodiesNational Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Boris Berezovsky & Konstantin Khvatynets