CANCELLED: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Trifonov / Nelsons
As a result of the new Germany-wide coronavirus restrictions that have been issued, all concerts in the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle have been cancelled initially from 2–30 November. This event has had to be cancelled. Tickets for cancelled events will be refunded. You’ll find further details on refunds on the following page: Information on refunds for tickets to cancelled events
Slowly but surely,the climax of Beethoven Year is approaching: 16 December 2020, the day when the great composer was born 250 years ago. High time, then, to take a look at Beethoven as a person. We all know the stories of the earnest, grouchy composer whose encroaching deafness made his life increasingly unbearable. But the fine and gentle music of the Sixth Symphony doesn’t seem to fit this picture at all.
And that is because there was also another side to Beethoven. He loved to be outside in nature, to look at plants and listen to the birds. His Fifth Piano Concerto, composed just a little while later and played tonight by the marvellous Daniil Trifonov, gives no evidence of Beethoven’s love of nature, but it is nonetheless a mature masterpiece and an absolute pinnacle of the genre.
Performers
Gewandhausorchester
Daniil Trifonov piano
conductor Andris Nelsons
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 »Pastorale«
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 »Eroica«
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