Concerts for Hamburg

For the first concert as part of the »Concerts for Hamburg« series, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and its long-time partner Krzysztof Urbański have invited a Hamburg resident: the pianist Anna Vinnitskaya studied in Hamburg and, having been appointed as the youngest female professor of the piano ever, now teaches in the hanseatic city herself. She can be heard performing Dmitri Shostakovich’s popular Piano Concerto No. 2, which he wrote as a birthday present to his son. The concert continues with a real firecracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky: the Russian composer’s Fourth Symphony provides a deep insight into his emotional world.