Bahnbrechend

In the organizer's words:

It is a reaction to traumatic experiences, a confrontation with loss and mortality - and then, despite long passages of melancholy, so mild, conciliatory, sometimes almost bathed in heavenly light: Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony was not only the first resounding success of the then often hapless, now 57-year-old composer, it is also still the most frequently performed of his nine symphonies. The work not only deals with the horrors of the Vienna Ringtheater fire of 1881, which claimed the lives of 386 people and which the composer himself only escaped by chance. It is also a declaration of love to Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner adored and whose death in 1883 shook him to the core. The Seventh - a work full of mysterious ciphers, theological symbols, deep confessions of the soul and, in its musical language, downright groundbreakingly modern. Michael Sanderling embarks on a search for clues and immerses himself in a cosmos of mysteries.

In 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote from Vienna to his father in Salzburg that he was working on some "concertos that make you sweat". These touchstones of keyboard artistry include the Piano Concerto K. 450, whose highly virtuoso solo part the composer wrote himself. What's more, with this stroke of genius he created a truly groundbreaking work that breaks open the form of the classical solo concerto, develops it imaginatively, introduces something completely new (for example the solo treatment of the woodwinds in the orchestra) and in this respect prepares the ground for the further development of the piano concerto in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pierre-Laurent Aimard is the ideal interpreter for one of the most beautiful Mozart piano concertos: He has played it again and again all over the world, shines in the opening movement, leaves all earthiness behind in the middle movement and shakes the glittering finale off his wrist with ease. Mozart himself would probably have had to admit that this was someone sitting at the piano who couldn't break a sweat so quickly.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 15 in B flat major KV 450
1784

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major WAB 107
1881-83

Instrumentation

Pierre-Laurent Aimard Piano
Michael Sanderling Conductor

Price information:

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