Hannu Lintu & Emanuel Ax

Date & Time

Thu, May 26, 2022, 20:00

Venue

The highly regarded Polish-American pianist Emanuel Ax is returning to the BRSO. For more than five decades he has thrilled music-lovers all over the world both with his playing and his modest, warm-hearted demeanour. The works of Frédéric Chopin have been a mainstay of his career, and he has again deepened his grasp of this music during the covid lockdown. The nobility and brilliance of his tone provide the perfect prerequisites for the F-minor Concerto, written when Chopin was 19... Read full text

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Musicians

Hannu Lintu	Conductor
Emanuel Ax	Piano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21	Frédéric Chopin
Symphony No. 2 D Major, op. 43	Jean Sibelius

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