BRAHMS & BEETHOVEN

In the organizer's words:

It has now become a tradition for chief conductor Rubén Dubrovsky to start the orchestral concert season with a B flat rather than an A flat. This time with two Bs: the first part of the program features Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, premiered in 1881 with Brahms himself as the soloist. The work draws its spirit from the great symphony and redefines the role of the piano as a permanently active source of musical inspiration. In Munich, the celebrated pianist Herbert Schuch takes on the demanding part. In the second part of the program, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, known by the nickname "Eroica" - the heroic. With this work, Beethoven wanted to present his calling card for a planned move to post-revolutionary Paris. When Napoleon then crowned himself emperor, he fumed with rage and erased the dedication to the mad Frenchman. The highly emotional work, which is one of Beethoven's best, was finally premiered in Vienna in 1805.