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ALBUMSaint-SaënsLang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
Albums by Andris Nelsons
ALBUMSaint-SaënsLang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
ALBUMSaint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Narrated by Jimmy Fallon)Lang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons & Jimmy Fallon
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony in D Minor "No. 0, Die Nullte" – Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Rienzi OvertureGewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
ALBUMShostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 12 & 13Boston Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons
ALBUMStrauss: Four Last SongsRachel Willis-Sørensen, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
ALBUMAndris Nelsons with Wiener PhilharmonikerAndris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
ALBUMSommernachtskonzert 2022 / Summer Night Concert 2022 [Live - Visual Album]Andris Nelsons, Vienna Philharmonic & Gautier Capuçon
ALBUMStraussAndris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester & Boston Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMBruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & LiebestodGewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
ALBUMSofia Gubaidulina: Dialog: Ich und Du; The Wrath of God; The Light of the EndVadim Repin, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
Andris Nelsons's Popular Music Videos
Melody (From "The High Pass")
Andris Nelsons, Vienna Philharmonic & Gautier Capuçon
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XII. Fossils
Lang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, TrV 296: No. 1, Frühling
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
Die Landstreicher: Ouvertüre
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
Leichte Kavallerie: Ouvertüre
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
Strauss: Festliches Präludium, Op. 61, TrV 229
Olivier Latry, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons
Cupido, Polka française, Op. 81
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
An der schönen blauen Donau, Walzer, Op. 314
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
Liebesgrüße, Walzer, Op. 56
Andris Nelsons & Vienna Philharmonic
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Andris Nelsons Essentials
This broad-minded composer has a deep ardour for European classics.
Artist Biography
Andris Nelsons conducts with energy and passion, a master of lyrical expression, orchestral detail, and warm, blended sonority. He was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1978 and initially trained as a trumpeter, playing with the Latvian National Opera before becoming the company’s music director in 2003. He rose to international prominence when he was appointed music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, aged just 30. Nelsons has pursued parallel careers in the opera house and concert hall. In opera, he is particularly associated with the music of Richard Wagner, and opened the Bayreuth Festival to great acclaim in 2010 with a new production of Lohengrin. In 2014 he was named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in 2017 also became Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. The two appointments have resulted in a series of acclaimed recordings for Deutsche Grammophon of repertoire well suited to Nelsons’ interpretive approach: Brahms and Shostakovich symphony cycles with Boston, a Bruckner cycle with Leipzig, and Richard Strauss tone poems with both orchestras. Besides his affinity with such mighty orchestral canvases, Nelsons has a lighter side, as demonstrated by his New Year’s Day Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in 2020 (recorded by Sony).
Hometown
Riga, Latvia
Genre
Classical