“Faces of Romanticism” might serve as a title for this concert, in which Zoltán Kocsis and his orchestra invite the listener into the very different worlds of three composers known as exponents of romantic music. Franz Schubert’s Symphony in C major would probably have vanished forever if Robert Schumann had not discovered it and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had not premièred it in 1839. It goes without saying what a great loss it would have been to subsequent generations if this spellbinding ma...sterpiece had not entered the symphonic repertoire. Strangely enough, the overture by Hector Berlioz that opens the concert was composed only a few years after Schubert’s symphony. The French composer – probably one of the most influential innovators in the history of music – regarded the orchestra as a single instrument, exploiting the tonal potential of the symphonic orchestra in unprecedented fashion. Berlioz’s first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, was an abject failure at its première, but the overture – brimming with Mediterranean joie de vivre and deploying interesting methods in instrumentation – has remained very popular to this day. Between the works of Berlioz and Schubert, the audience will hear a composition which contains perhaps the greatest number of entrancing melodies in the piano concerto repertoire. Composed in 1900-01, this “hit” composition can be heard here in an expert interpretation, for few are more familiar with the life’s work of the Russian composer than Zoltán Kocsis. The 42-year-old Croatian-born pianist Lovro Pogorelich, having grown up in the shadow of his elder brother, has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike not merely with his virtuosity but with his intense performance style. He feels primarily at home in piano music rooted in Eastern Europe – in the works of Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev in particular. Presented by: Hungarian National Philharmonic
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