Semyon Bychkov & Mao Fujita

Date & Time

Fri, Feb 9, 2024, 20:00

Venue

In 2021, Japanese pianist Mao Fujita caused a sensation at the Verbier Festival with his acclaimed performance of all Mozart piano sonatas. A year later, at the age of twenty-three, he released the cycle on CD. Critics praised the pianist’s “miraculous articulation.” Mao Fujita will now make his debut with the BRSO by performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, whose somber and resigned tone already points towards the Romantic era. Schubert’s “Great” C major Symphony is equally groundbreaking. Its... Read full text

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Musicians

Semyon Bychkov	Conductor
Mao Fujita	Piano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 “The Great C major”	Franz Schubert

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