Sir András Schiff plays Beethoven Piano Concertos 3 & 4
MUSIC & GUEST ARTIST
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
HAYDN Symphony No. 99
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
Sir András Schiff fortepiano/director
SIR ANDRAS SCHIFF IN CONVERSATION
with Jessica Duchen and OAE musicians, Kati Debretzeni (violin/leader), Annette Isserlis (viola) and Daniel Bates (oboe). This event will take place in the QEH foyer 15 minutes after the concert finishes and is free to ticket holders.
ON TOUR
Our Beethoven Piano Concerto project with Sir András Schiff will be on tour in May and June to Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (24 May); Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (28 May); Essen Philharmonie (29 May); Stefaniensaal, Graz (30 – 31 May); Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (1 June); Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris (3 June); and Auditorium Lyon (5 June).
Please see venue websites for programme details.
After the success of the Brahms Piano Concerto series with Sir András Schiff in 2019, we are delighted to welcome back our Principal Guest Artist for a three-night series of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos.
‘The Wilderness Pleases’ is inspired by one of the many influential pieces of work to come out of the Enlightenment era; Shaftesbury’s ‘The Moralists.’
In the book, the main character Theocles describes the terror of encountering a group of crocodiles in an Egyptian desert. After escaping the monsters, he is overcome with a desire to admire them as wondrous creatures of the natural world. He says,
‘let us fly to the vast deserts of these parts […] ghastly and hideous as they appear they want not their peculiar beauties. Wilderness pleases.’
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