Mitsuko Uchida & Concertgebouw Orchestra play Beethoven

Mitsuko Uchida

Mitsuko Uchida is an uncontested authority as an interpreter of the Viennese classics. Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto is an early work performed less frequently than his subsequent piano concertos. In no other work can we hear the influences of both Haydn and Mozart on Beethoven as clearly as in this concerto full of light-hearted and surprising inventions. It’s the perfect showcase for Mitsuko Uchida’s stylistically pure pianism. T\he orchestra is very much looking forward to working with her again since their last collaboration over eight years ago.

Bruckner

Some 100 years later in the Vienna of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Anton Bruckner composed his Third Symphony. However, this work seems to be from an entirely different world: epic, mesmerising and at times utterly overwhelming. Bruckner dedicated the symphony to Richard Wagner, whose operas he held in the highest regard. Although he had no theatrical ambitions of his own, there is no shortage of drama in the symphony. This is also music composed by a perfectionist – Bruckner made no fewer than six versions before he was satisfied with it.