Soloistic brilliance and symphonic ecstasy
With the young American high-flyer James Feddeck on the podium - he won the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in 2013 - the Belgian National Orchestra opens the round of orchestral concerts. James Feddeck is regarded as a specialist in the music of Anton Bruckner and will focus here on his Symphony No. 5 in B flat major. Described by the composer himself as his "contrapuntal masterpiece", the work, composed between 1873 and 1875, captivates the listener with its monumental character, the touching Adagio introduction of the first movement and the magnificent brass chorales of the last. And yet the symphony was written at a time of great despair and financial hardship, since Bruckner had given up his organist's career in favour of a professorship in music theory, to which he was not appointed after all. The first half of the concert features Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A major, K488. The soloist is the Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, whose truly global career regularly takes him to the greatest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic. No doubt he will make this Mozart piano concerto, which - composed in parallel with the "Marriage of Figaro" and completed in 1786 - is one of the "Great Viennese Concertos", sparkle.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 23 in A major K. 488
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony no. 5 B flat major WAB 105
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