ConcertPulse
Dima Slobodeniouk & Javier Perianes
Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)
A sunrise on the sea. Flutes shine like the sun over the waves of the strings. This is pure impressionism, it could describe a passage from Claude Debussy’s “La mer”. But it illustrates a composition by Jean Sibelius: “Die Okeaniden”, called “Rondeau der Wellen” by the Finnish musician in German. Sibelius wrote the impressionistic water music for his own concert tour to the USA in spring 1914, nine years after Debussy’s “La mer”. Both works are now directly opposite each other in the RSB concert under the direction of Dima Slobodeniouk. Before that, there will be the opportunity to hear the 45-year-old Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, who performs in all the world’s renowned concert halls, in his second concert with the RSB (after his debut in 2017) with Beethoven’s mighty Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major.For personal reasons, Seong-Jin Cho will not be playing the concerto. We have been able to engage the outstanding pianist Javier Perianes for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5.The concert will be broadcast live on radio 3 at 8.03pm.
