Over the years, Nicolas Waldvogel has conceived and
conducted many fresh and bold projects. They have captured
the imagination of audiences, perhaps because they showed
old works in a radically new light. For instance, the
double Beethoven program
presents familiar repertoire (Beethoven’s 5th and 6th
symphonies) in the exact order in which it was 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".