ConcertPulseNDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / David Robertson
Date & Time
Thu, Sep 26, 2024, 20:00»My music has to be short. Short! In two notes: not to build, but to express!« Arnold Schönberg once emphasised. The Austrian composer also favoured deliberate reduction in his only piano concerto. Schönberg based it on a single, frequently varied tone row, thereby achieving expressive nuances ranging from puckish cheekiness to decided drama. Although the inventor of twelve-tone music celebrates his 150th birthday in 2024, his compositions still sound as modern today as ever. So it’s no wonder that the... Read full text
Keywords: Symphony Concert
Musicians
| NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | |
| Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Piano |
| David Robertson | Conductor |
Program
| Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | Claude Debussy |
| Adagio / from: Symphony No. 10 | Gustav Mahler |
| Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 | Arnold Schönberg |
| Variations on »I Got Rhythm« | George Gershwin |