Gewandhausorchester, Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons
Nelsons conducts Mendelssohn and Berg
Artist: Gewandhausorchester, Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons - Soloist: Baiba Skride - Producer: Accentus Music - Conductor: Andris Nelsons - Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff, Alban Berg, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy & Steffen Schleiermacher - Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester
Nelsons conducts Mendelssohn and Berg
Andris Nelsons’s starts off his official opening concert as principal conductor of the Gewandhausorchester with the world premiere of Steffen Schleiermacher's 'Relief for Orchestra'. Baiba Skride features as soloist in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto. In the slow finale the solo violin’s line is gradually joined by the rest of the first violin, providing a lovely moment between soloist and orchestra. Skride's encore is Imitatione delle Campane by von Westhoff, a Bach contemporary. The concert closes with a rendition of Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Op. 56, known as the 'Scottish' which actually premiered in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1842. Recorded on February 22/23, 2018 in the Gewandhaus, Leipzig.