Elim Chan & Rudolf Buchbinder

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Op. 84: Overture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491

Interval

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17, "Little Russian"

Elim Chan, Conductor

Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Due to commitments in his new role as Principal Conductor of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti unfortunately has to cancel his participation in these concerts. We are very pleased that in his place Elim Chan will now make her debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Due to the change, the selection of works had to be altered: Instead of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony will now be heard. The programme of the first half of the concert remains unchanged.

Audio

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

Long live the classics! Rudolf Buchbinder, the grandseigneur of the piano and a welcome guest at the BRSO, will play Mozart’s C minor Piano Concerto of 1786. The gloomy, ominous opening is unusual for Mozart’s concertos; and even if a more relaxed, almost cheerful mood reigns in the Larghetto, the final set of variations returns us to the wind-swept C minor atmosphere. Elim Chan, a conductor born in Hong Kong, will open the concert with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, a paean to the ideal of liberty and revolt against political suppression. Rounding off the evening is a piece never before played in Munich by the BRSO: Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony.

live on the radio

BR-KLASSIK will broadcast the concert live on the radio.

Impressions from the rehearsals