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Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov perform Schumann's deeply personal Violin Sonatas op. 105 and 121, composed during a period of strife and crisis. The program also features Brahms' Sonata op. 120 and works by Webern and Kurtág, offering a stark contrast. The concert will be recorded and broadcast, followed by an artist talk.
Concerts in season 2024/25 or later where works by György Kurtág is performed
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov perform Schumann's deeply personal Violin Sonatas op. 105 and 121, composed during a period of strife and crisis. The program also features Brahms' Sonata op. 120 and works by Webern and Kurtág, offering a stark contrast. The concert will be recorded and broadcast, followed by an artist talk.
On May 10th and 11th, ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln invites children aged 5 and up to "Solo für Kinder." In this mini-concert, musicians introduce an instrument and its sounds in 30 minutes. Experience familiar and new timbres and playing techniques. The event is presented in partnership with Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln and supported by the Brigitte-Wagner-Halswick-Stiftung.
Many composers in history have found inspiration in the fragile and mysterious world of plants and flowers. For his solo recital, Kirill Gerstein presents a diverse selection of piano works from three centuries by com posers ranging from Robert Schumann to Thomas Adès. Percy Grainger’s paraphrase of Tchaikovsky’s famous “Waltz of the Flowers” provides the link to Maurice Ravel’s La Valse and the Waltzes Toward Civilization by the young Spanish composer Francisco Coll.
Mitsuko Uchida is the grande dame of the piano – and one of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s close artistic companions. Her elegant, gripping and sensitive playing makes her an ideal interpreter of the piano works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. In the final concert of our piano series, we will hear her perform Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E minor, which journeys between contemplative calm and passionate forward momentum, as well as Schubert's last sonata - a work full of intense emotions: sometimes rapturous and reflective, sometimes comforting; and at times, offering a terrifying glimpse into a psychological abyss. Arnold Schönberg and György Kurtág contribute poetic miniatures from the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Vienna Philharmonic, pianist Igor Levit and conductor Thomas Adès: each of these names alone promises world class artistry. What kind of concert will be the outcome when the three performers join forces? The Austrian Standard wrote of the orchestra’s last concert with Levit that »they were not only on the same wavelength, they were literally surfing on a wave of energy«. For the Hamburg International Music Festival, they have put together a programme full of (positive!) surprises that is well off the beaten track. The classical prelude is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, followed by Thomas Adès’ piano concerto, which has already been performed around 60 times since its premiere in 2019 – a remarkable amount for a contemporary work. Given the fame that the multi-talented British composer enjoys, this success is hardly surprising. A New York Times critic wrote about the premiere of the concerto: »As ever, the craft is astounding, the orchestration ceaselessly brilliant. The voice is wholly his own — dissonant, offbeat, whiplash, wry — even as it whispers to musics past. This breathless concerto comes across as zesty and accessible. But don’t be fooled. Just below the surface, the music sizzles. I can’t wait to hear it again.« Adès, whose music is full of musical echoes from baroque to jazz yet refuses to follow any dogmas, sets the tone for the second half of the concert featuring Leoš Janácek, whose musical language around a century ago was equally undogmatic. His rhapsody »Taras Bulba« sets Nikolai Gogol’s tragic tale of the same name about a father and his two sons to music. So vividly that a film inevitably unfolds in the mind’s eye of the listener. By way of a prelude, two miniatures pay tribute to Pierre Boulez as the spotlighted composer of the International Music Festival.
As a child, Mitsuko Uchida left her native Japan for Austria, entering a new world. Trained in Vienna, she became a world-class pianist, her enthusiasm for Viennese music enduring to this day. Uchida approaches great piano works with enduring sensitivity. "Today, I'm perhaps braver, but differently than in my early years." With her 'Viennese blood,' she unlocks the secrets of this music, particularly Schubert and Beethoven's sonatas.
World class – as she has been for decades: known for her technical perfection and deep musical intuition, Mitsuko Uchida is one of the greatest pianists of our time. The grand dame of the piano now returns to the Elbphilharmonie with a moving solo programme. Incidentally, she was not only involved in the selection of the Elbphilharmonie’s numerous concert grands, but also gave the first piano recital ever in the Grand Hall after the opening in 2017. The programme features Beethoven and Schubert, two composers with whom the Grammy award-winning musician has made a name for herself around the world. Beethoven’s famous Sonata Op. 90 is captivating for its great musical contrasts: while a restless motion carries through the passionate first movement, the lyrical second movement, with its song-like beauty in parts, is already headed distinctly in the direction of Schubert. Mitsuko Uchida then brings one of the most important piano works ever to the stage, namely his final piano sonata. In this deeply inward-looking and touching music, the romantic composer seems to leave space and time behind him – in ways rapturous and melancholic, dramatic and comforting all at the same time. Repertoire classics in a top line-up – making this a piano recital straight off the wish list.
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