Brahms Klavierkonzert

In the organizer's words:

There had never been a piano concerto with such a powerful sound before. When Johannes Brahms premiered his First Piano Concerto himself in 1859, the audience was thrilled. Hardly anyone knew how many years he had struggled to complete it. At first he wanted to write a sonata for two pianos, but that failed. Then he rewrote his ideas for orchestra, but he was not satisfied with that either. Finally, he had the saving idea of combining orchestra and piano. Today, the work is one of the most beautiful that Romantic music has to offer. Prokofiev's suites to Shakespeare's famous love story are also the result of a reworking, namely from music for a complete ballet to pure orchestral music. He chose the most beautiful passages himself. The result is dramatic cinema for the ears...

Program

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor

Sergei Prokofiev
Suite from the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"

Performers

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian | Conductor

Francesco Piemontesi | Piano

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra