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DESCRIPTION:Sep 4-5\, 2026\nAs principal timpanist of the NDR Elbphilharmon
 ie Orchestra\, now embarking on his final Hamburg season\, Stephan Cürlis
  gets tons of love. This opening-night concert promises to be the one his 
 fans will replay in their inner ear forever. He starts not in his usual co
 rner up on a riser but at the knee of Maestro Alan Gilbert\, embedded amon
 g seven kettledrums for James Oliverio’s Legacy Ascendant: Concerto for 
 Timpani and Orchestra No. 3 (2022). The backup here consists of just strin
 gs plus a harp\, with which the soloist shares a most-unorthodox duet\; Ol
 iverio’s fascination with kettledrums\, we’re told\, has more to do wi
 th seldom unleashed melodic and timbral potential than with boom boom boom
 . But the pièce de resistance\, as is now customary for this orchestra at
  the start of a new season\, is Mahler. It’s his epic Symphony No. 6 tha
 t’s on tap\, unofficially known as “The Tragic.” Darksome and sprawl
 ing\, it lacks the singing voices that often personalize the Master’s sy
 mphonies. But it is personal\, building to a terminal pair of blows of Fat
 e (sometimes three\, depending on the edition). Those blows are struck by 
 a mallet of Bunyanesque proportions—a uniquely shattering concert-hall c
 oup de théâtre. Cürlis’s cheering section will go crazy.
LOCATION:Elbphilharmonie Hamburg\, Platz d. Deutschen Einheit 4\, 20457 Ham
 burg\, Germany
SUMMARY:Alan Gilbert conducts Oliverio's Timpani Concerto No. 3\, Mahler's 
 Symphony No. 6
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