Bamberger Symphoniker / Lukas Sternath / Jakub Hrůša
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 & Symphony No. 5
Interesting parallels
Is it a coincidence that Beethoven’s best-known piano concerto and his most popular symphony are both »No. 5«? Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberger Symphoniker have attached special importance to their concert programming since they began working together, revealing interesting parallels in the process. Tonight they place Beethoven’s two number fives next to one another.
This enables them to make space for new ideas: two aspects of the music, two faces of one composer – the sound of Fate in one work, heroic sounds in the other. The Fifth Symphony is set in the dramatic key of C minor, while the Fifth Piano Concerto is in heroic E-flat, which consists of the same notes, but produces a completely different sound. And this heroic sound shines in the hands of the young Austrian pianist Lukas Sternath, winner of first prize and no fewer than seven special prizes at the 2022 ARD Music Competition. A name, in other words, that’s worth noting.
Performers
Bamberger Symphoniker
Lukas Sternath piano
conductor Jakub Hrůša
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73
– Interval –
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Soloist’s encore:
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo Es-Dur op. 117/1
Orchestra’s encore:
Ludwig van Beethoven
4th movement Allegro con brio / from: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Spotlight
Jakub Hrůša