Concerts For Hamburg by Copland, Beethoven, Minn (2017/2017), Surmast Direttur Thomas Hengelbrock, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

»Let’s Go to America!« is the title of this concert dedicated to one of the most important classical composers from the other side of the Atlantic: Aaron Copland. His delightful Clarinet Concerto was originally written for jazz legend Benny Goodman; it’s played tonight by the Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst, about whom the New York Times wrote: »There is something approaching the supernatural about his command of his instrument«. Copland is followed by Modest Mussorgsky’s »Pictures at an Exhibition« – an evergreen in concert halls across the world thanks to the figurative tonal language used by the composer to describe a painter-friend’s pictures.