Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Anna Vinnitskaya / Petr Popelka

Classical Treasures

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in D major requires true technical brilliance to master its hypnotic rhythms, dreamy lyrical phrases and dramatically percussive passages. With Anna Vinnitskaya at the keyboard, we need not worry. However, there is one thing you must know. Ravel wrote this concerto just for the left hand. Luckily for us, Anna is one of the few pianists who has added this unusual composition to her repertoire. After studying here in Hamburg, she decided to make this beautiful city her home, taking a position teaching piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama while also touring the concert halls of the world. For this performance, she will be accompanied by the Wiener Symphoniker who will follow Ravel’s rare treasure with Mahler’s well-known and regularly-played First Symphony. First performed in 1889, this early work already shows all the characteristics of the brilliant composer’s style. We can guarantee his witty, charming, grotesque, moving, thrilling and momentous music will send shivers down your spine. It may be the first symphony he wrote but it’s unmistakably Mahler.