Berliner Philharmoniker with Kirill Petrenko - T523710733The first of the Berliner Philharmoniker's two Proms this season comprises a pair of musical love letters. One is to a person: Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto was written for his wife Clara (whose own concerto is performed on the First Night). It's a work whose supple and sensual music offers touching insights into one of the most passionate musical romances of the 19th century. The other was written to a country. In Ma vlast Bedrich Smetana - one of this year's Czech anniversary composers, born 200 years ago - transferred all his love for his Bohemian homeland into a majestic sequence of six symphonic poems: pictures of his country's landscape and history. With the exceptional pianist ViĀ“kingur Olafsson for company, Kirill Petrenko conducts his illustrious orchestra in music that comes straight from the heart.Performer Vikingur Olafsson (piano). Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Kirill Petrenko. | |
31 Aug 24 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1585957052 |