Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin im Konzert mit Vladimir Jurowski & Mitsuko Uchida

Big footsteps

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 requires a knowledgeable artist who is able to adequately reproduce the special lyrical quality of this masterpiece. Mitsuko Uchida brings precisely this life-experienced "wisdom of the heart". We are delighted about her late debut with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin!

Johannes Brahms has been skirting the dinosaur tracks of the revered Beethoven like hot porridge ever since Robert Schumann invited him to follow in his footsteps. The first piano concerto, various chamber music genres and the two serenades for orchestra were among the attempts at rapprochement. Vladimir Jurowski will demonstrate the immense quality of the music in the Serenade No. 1 - beyond all "symphonic preparation".

One person who in turn emulated Brahms was Arnold Schönberg, now 150 years old. From around 1934, the enfant terrible of early 20th century music produced surprisingly purified works that do not deny Schoenberg's growth in innovative compositional techniques, but also recall with pleasure and joy the tonal before, when Schoenberg was still an ardent apologist for Brahms and for Romanticism and Classicism in general. Theme and Variations for orchestra from 1943 are a charming example of Schönberg's realization of Brahms' idea of the "developing variation".