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Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
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We are reopening the Müpa Budapest virtual concert hall: As part of the Müpa Home series, we will one again be offering online broadcasts free of charge. In addition to live webcasts, we have lined up earlier recordings of defining performances at Müpa Budapest. Tune in and relive the most exciting productions in the comfort of your own home!
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The Japanese pianist Hisako Kawamura was five years old when she settled in Europe, where she went on to pursue her music studies in Germany. Her playing is distinguished by an incredible sense of tempo, flexibility, freedom and, of course, technical perfection, and it was no accident that it is has brought her awards at the Clara Haskil Piano Competition, the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zurich, the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. All this was only a few years ago, but since then she has travelled the world to perform concerts with its most renowned conductors and orchestras. Under the baton of Zoltán Kocsis, she will perform a concerto whose difficulty means it is only rarely performed, and which Rachmaninoff composed for his first overseas tour in 1909. Interestingly, the composer practised the piece on a silent travel keyboard aboard the steamer en route to America, and it received widespread recognition after a performance conducted by Gustav Mahler. (The success of the tour allowed Rachmaninoff to buy his first car.)
In the second part of the concert, we will get to hear one of Beethoven's most lighthearted symphonies, which, remarkably enough, the 32-year-old composer produced during a period of deep personal crisis, when he also wrote his Heiligenstadt Testament addressing his deafness and its consequences. The Second Symphony is music of optimism and humour, perhaps the last one to be written in the Viennese Classical symphonic style perfected by Haydn, before the revolutionary new Eroica.
This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 29 January 2016.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
