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“There is no sound like the Lucerne Festival Orchestra …”—Guardian
The Concert
Beethoven the lyrical poet and Beethoven the tub-thumping populist provide the two widely contrasted poles in this evening’s program. Something of a revolutionary by inclination, and inspired by such movements as the French Revolution, he addressed in his Ninth Symphony the topic of human brotherhood, moving in the course of this vast score from intense drama by way of ebullient humor and profound contemplation to a climax of dizzying jubilation. But in Beethoven’s humanism there was a no less important vein of gentle intimacy—and this equally attractive facet of his genius is nowhere expressed more winningly than in the fourth of his five piano concertos.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
David Robertson, Conductor
Murray Perahia, Piano
Melanie Diener, Soprano
Anna Larsson, Contralto
Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor
Reinhard Hagen, Bass
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller, Conductor
BEETHOVEN
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Piano Concerto No. 4
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BEETHOVEN
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Symphony No. 9
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