CONCERT
Carnegie Hall
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim - Music Director, Conductor, and Piano
- Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482
- Bruckner - Symphony No. 6
"Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim’s long-standing and deeply personal relationship with the music of Mozart and Bruckner is showcased. Mozart’s joyous Piano Concerto No. 22 is an energetic opener to this concert that also features Bruckner’s colossal Sixth Symphony, a work that includes one of the composer’s most deeply affecting slow movements."
"Anton Bruckner is perhaps the most misunderstood of the great symphonists. In his own day, he confused both his supporters—leading them to undertake extensive editing of his works to make them conform better to contemporary norms—and his detractors, among them the redoubtable Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick, who savaged most of his symphonies at their premieres. In our own day, too many concertgoers react to him with incomprehension and boredom.
Labeled by his contemporaries "the Wagner symphonist," Bruckner actually wrote symphonies that are anything but the Romantic/Wagnerian celebration of self. Instead, they are spiritual quests and homages to God, in whom he fervently believed and whom he sought to glorify in his music. "Each of his symphonies is in reality one gigantic arch that starts on earth in the midst of suffering humanity, sweeps up toward the heavens to the very Throne of Grace, and returns to earth with a message of peace," writes biographer Hans-Hubert Schönzeler.
Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin give us the unprecedented opportunity to experience all nine of these magnificent symphonies over an 11-day span—both the ones we may know well and those we rarely encounter. The Sixth Symphony is one of Bruckner's loveliest and most melodious works, one filled with memories of his rural Austrian homeland. As in all these concerts, it is paired with one of Mozart's sublime concert works, the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482; brilliant and popular in style, it is crowned by one of Mozart's greatest slow movements, which the Viennese audience perceptively demanded be encored at its premiere."
Labeled by his contemporaries "the Wagner symphonist," Bruckner actually wrote symphonies that are anything but the Romantic/Wagnerian celebration of self. Instead, they are spiritual quests and homages to God, in whom he fervently believed and whom he sought to glorify in his music. "Each of his symphonies is in reality one gigantic arch that starts on earth in the midst of suffering humanity, sweeps up toward the heavens to the very Throne of Grace, and returns to earth with a message of peace," writes biographer Hans-Hubert Schönzeler.
Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin give us the unprecedented opportunity to experience all nine of these magnificent symphonies over an 11-day span—both the ones we may know well and those we rarely encounter. The Sixth Symphony is one of Bruckner's loveliest and most melodious works, one filled with memories of his rural Austrian homeland. As in all these concerts, it is paired with one of Mozart's sublime concert works, the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482; brilliant and popular in style, it is crowned by one of Mozart's greatest slow movements, which the Viennese audience perceptively demanded be encored at its premiere."
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