Conductor: Tibor Bogányi Soloist: Gergely Bogányi – piano Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, op. 52 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B flat minor, op. 23 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major (“Leningrad”), op. 60 Johannes Brahms fell hopelessly in love with Robert Schumann’s daughter Julie and it is believed this was a major factor behind the composition of the Liebeslieder Waltzes. The composer expressed his passions through these waltz songs. “You have to weed out the banalities and then mak...e the unplayable bit playable”, was the opinion of Nikolai Rubinstein when Piotr Tchaikovsky showed him the score of his Piano Concerto in B flat minor. The composer was frequently influenced by the opinion of his friends but in this case he dug in his heels and changed the dedication to Hans von Bülow. The great German pianist and conductor also found the piano solo extremely challenging but after studying the score more thoroughly decided, that “the work amply compensates for the difficulties”. Time has proven him: the composition remains a huge audience favourite to this day. Shostakovich began composing his Symphony No. 7 in July 1941 at the time when Germany attacked his homeland. The work was completed by December and he described it like this: “The first movement has a dramatic, perhaps tragic character. An event threatens our peaceful life: war and everything has to be subsumed to its laws. But the music has another message: it is a requiem in which a people mourn for their dead heroes. I intended the next two movements as an intermezzo, they proclaim life as opposed to the war. […] I quarrelled with the concept that the muses are silent in war. I dedicated the fourth movement to the expression of our victory […] The triumph of light over darkness, wisdom over madness, sublime humanism over ghastly nightmare.”
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