大象传媒

Markus Stenz and the 贬补濒濒茅 perform Beethoven's Symphony No.5, and are joined by Kirill Gerstein to perform Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Presented by Stuart Flinders.

贬补濒濒茅
Markus Stenz conductor
Kirill Gerstein piano

Henze: The Enchanted Forest
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Liszt: Totentanz

8.20 Interval

8.40
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor

Markus Stenz and the 贬补濒濒茅 begin with Henze's The Enchanted Forest, an atmospheric orchestral medley adapted from the composer's opera K枚nig Hirsch (The Stag King).

Kirill Gerstein, hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the most respected pianists of his generation', is then the soloist in Ravel's pulsating Concerto for the Left Hand, a work influenced by Spanish music and jazz. Remarkably, throughout the piece Ravel makes one hand sound like two! Liszt's Totentanz is another extraordinary work for piano and orchestra. Years ahead of its time when first performed, it is a set of virtuosic variations that paraphrases the ancient plainchant, the ominous Dies Irae.

In the second half the fate theme reaches its glorious apotheosis in Beethoven's legendary Fifth Symphony, with its iconic four-note 'fate' motif.