“The new chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra presented on Friday his first season, in which he will conduct no less than 35 concerts in Hamburg. He has big plans for the residence orchestra of the Konzerthaus in the HafenCity, and wants to write a piece of music history on the Elbe, just like on the Hudson with the New York Philharmonic. ‘The limit,’ says Gilbert, ‘is our imagination.'”