Over the years, Nicolas Waldvogel has captured the
imagination of audiences by showing old works in a
radically new light. For instance, the
double Beethoven program
presents familiar works (Beethoven’s 5th and 6th
symphonies, Choral Fantasy) in the exact order in
which they were first heard, on a cold but musically
torrid night of December 1808. Likewise, for Charles
Ives’s mystical
Fourth Symphony, Nicolas
Waldvogel called on over two hundred musicians to
evoke the composer's century-old, but still so modern
utopia. Other projects have included a
Youth Concert dedicated to
Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, concert excerpts of
Wagner's
Parsifal, and an orchestration of
Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, entitled
"For Clara Schumann".