Episode 489
Conductor Alan Gilbert on Brahms and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Gramophone Classical Music Podcast · Gramophone Magazine
April 18, 202528m 21s
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Show Notes
Alan Gilbert is Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with him during a run of Wagner's Die Walküre in Stockholm, where he lives.
They talked about his Hamburg-based orchestra, the role today of a radio orchestra and also about the work orchestra and conductor have just released (on the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester label to stream and download), Brahms's Third Symphony.