AMSTERDAM Concertgebouw LIGETI Concerto with Maxim Emelyanychev and Concertgebouworkest
Schedule
Sun Apr 30 2023 at 02:15 pm
Location
Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam | Amsterdam, NH
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About this concertSchubert’s Ninth Symphony is known as the ‘Great’ – and for good reason. In the final months of his short life, Schubert’s boundless creative ambition resulted in a truly superlative symphony. When Robert Schumann discovered the work in a drawer at Schubert’s brother’s house after the composer’s death, he exulted at its ‘heavenly length’. Indeed, it is a grand architectural marvel which builds on Beethoven, quoting his Ninth Symphony, yet also seems to prefigure Bruckner.
Before the intermission, Maxim Emelyanychev conducts two twentieth-century masterpieces. Ligeti’s layered Violin Concerto features a parade of all and sundry – from Hungarian folk melodies and dance rhythms to innovative instrumental techniques and references to Renaissance music. It’s the perfect vehicle for Patricia Kopatchinskaja to express myriad aspects of her musical personality. The concert opens with Ives’s cosmic musical dialogue, The Unanswered Question.
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Where is it happening?
Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam, NetherlandsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
