‘National Orchestra of Belgium’

1 Mar.'15
- 00:00

Audiences

The Ukrainian-German pianist Alexej Gorlatch has won many prizes at various international music competitions but is above all a gifted young pianist with a bright future. Today he performs the ‘imperial’ Fifth Piano Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven, which together with the Fourth is one of his most important contributions to piano literature. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony - popularly known as the ‘tatatata symphony’ due to its famous opening motif that evokes the power of fate - develops from the opening notes to the epic finale with an implacable logic. This is preceded in the programme by the commissioned work from the young Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud, a fan of Béla Bartók.

Stefan Blunier

conductor

Alexej Gorlatch

piano

Johannes Maria Staud

Moment, Leute, Moment ! (World premiere, commissioned by BNO in the frame of the centenary of World War I, with the support of the Services of the Prime Minister and of the National Lottery)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 73, "Emperor"

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony no. 5, op. 67

Johannes Maria Staud

Moment, Leute, Moment ! (World premiere, commissioned by BNO in the frame of the centenary of World War I, with the support of the Services of the Prime Minister and of the National Lottery)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 73, "Emperor"

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony no. 5, op. 67

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 73, "Emperor"

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony no. 5, op. 67

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Austrian Cultural Forum (Österreichisches Kulturforum)

‘National Orchestra of Belgium’

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