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SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Season Opening: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Alexandre Kantorow /=0D=0AManfred Honeck
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:»How extraordinarily, indeed almost terrifyingly, good he is«=0D=0A(Hamburger Abendblatt) – pianist Alexandre Kantorow already proved=0D=0Athis impressively as Artist in Residence of the 2025/26 season. Now,=0D=0Atogether with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and conductor Manfred=0D=0AHoneck, he opens the Elbphilharmonie’s anniversary season.=0D=0AFor their appearance in Hamburg, they have chosen Johannes Brahms’s=0D=0APiano Concerto No. 1. Originally conceived as a sonata for two pianos,=0D=0ABrahms soon realised that something larger was emerging from the=0D=0Amusic. Via an intermediate symphonic draft there ultimately arose –=0D=0A»terribly difficult and grand«, as he enthusiastically wrote to=0D=0AClara Schumann – one of the most important piano concertos of the=0D=0A19th century.=0D=0A=0D=0ADmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, another work with a turbulent=0D=0Ahistory, also features on the programme. The Soviet composer wrote it=0D=0Ain 1937, at a time when, following severe official criticism, he lived=0D=0Ain constant fear of falling victim to the regime’s »purges« –=0D=0Adaily life during the era of the Great Terror. While the music appears=0D=0Aoutwardly to glorify dictator Joseph Stalin through triumphant=0D=0Agestures, it simultaneously reveals profound despair and inner=0D=0Aconflict. It is little wonder that this emotionally charged symphony=0D=0Aremains one of Shostakovich’s most frequently performed works.=0D=0A=0D=0APERFORMERS=0D=0A=0D=0APITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA orchestra=0D=0A=0D=0AALEXANDRE KANTOROW piano=0D=0A=0D=0AMANFRED HONECK conductor=0D=0A=0D=0APROGRAM=0D=0A=0D=0AJOHANNES BRAHMS=0D=0AConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15=0D=0A=0D=0A- Interval -=0D=0A=0D=0ADMITRI SCHOSTAKOWITSCH=0D=0ASymphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47=0D=0A
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