PROGRAMME
DUKE ELLINGTON ARR. DANIEL SCHLOSBERG: “In a Sentimental Mood”
ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-flat minor, Op. 26
JOHANNES BRAHMS : Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

PERFORMING WITH
Dover Quartet

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Magazine, the Dover Quartet is one of the most versatile and listened-to groups. “No one who’s heard the brilliant Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in action could be in any doubt about the depth of his musical insights or the range of his interests” (San Francisco Chronicle).

PROGRAMME
DUKE ELLINGTON ARR. DANIEL SCHLOSBERG: “In a Sentimental Mood”
ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-flat minor, Op. 26
JOHANNES BRAHMS : Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

PERFORMING WITH
Dover Quartet

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Magazine, the Dover Quartet is one of the most versatile and listened-to groups. “No one who’s heard the brilliant Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in action could be in any doubt about the depth of his musical insights or the range of his interests” (San Francisco Chronicle).

PROGRAMME
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Programme also includes
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

PERFORMING WITH
Philadelphia Orchestra
Lahav Shani, Conductor

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 draws the listener into a labyrinth of interconnected themes, growing ever more mysterious, complex, and beautiful; for the pianist, it is one of the most challenging works in the repertoire, demanding sensitivity as well as stamina. It is performed here by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, hailed for his “easy virtuosity and panache” (The New York Times). The program closes with one of Bartók’s best-loved works, the exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra.

PROGRAMME
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Programme also includes
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

PERFORMING WITH
Philadelphia Orchestra
Lahav Shani, Conductor

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 draws the listener into a labyrinth of interconnected themes, growing ever more mysterious, complex, and beautiful; for the pianist, it is one of the most challenging works in the repertoire, demanding sensitivity as well as stamina. It is performed here by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, hailed for his “easy virtuosity and panache” (The New York Times). The program closes with one of Bartók’s best-loved works, the exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra.

PROGRAMME
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Programme also includes
LEOŠ JANÁČEK: Taras Bulba
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer

PERFORMING WITH
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

HARDING MEETS ANDSNES
Sergei Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto is regarded as one of the most difficult pieces for piano in the classical repertoire. In this concert, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will take on the notorious piece together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under music director Daniel Harding. Furthermore, Leoš Janáček’s colourful rhapsody Taras Bulba and Claude Debussy’s beloved orchestral suite La mer.

PROGRAMME
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Programme also includes
LEOŠ JANÁČEK: Taras Bulba
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer

PERFORMING WITH
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

HARDING MEETS ANDSNES
Sergei Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto is regarded as one of the most difficult pieces for piano in the classical repertoire. In this concert, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will take on the notorious piece together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under music director Daniel Harding. Furthermore, Leoš Janáček’s colourful rhapsody Taras Bulba and Claude Debussy’s beloved orchestral suite La mer.

Programme
Claude Debussy: Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (1889 – 90)
César Franck: Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra (1885)

Programme also includes
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excerpt)
Richard Wagner: Overture from Tannhäuser (1845)

Performing with
Trondheim Symfoniorkester
Magnus Fryklund, conductor

The last concert of the season offers nothing less than a French evening with our piano virtuoso Leif Ove Andsnes and a summery TSO.

In Debussy’s Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre, the piano soloist is well integrated into the orchestra’s texture, but the solo voice is both virtuoso, elegant and alluringly energetic. Andsnes has received rave reviews for his interpretation of this work worldwide.

Franck’s Variations symphoniques are considered his most brilliant work, requiring both dexterity and finesse. It is like a mini-version of a piano concerto, but here the soloist and orchestra are equal, and together they imaginatively develop the stream of musical ideas that is springing up.

The evening is framed by two orchestral works; excerpts from Mendelssohn’s enchantingly beautiful A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Wagner’s powerful and popular overture to the opera Tannhäuser.

Programme

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Rondo in A for piano four hands, D 951 »Grand Rondeau«
Allegretto quasi andantino

GYÖRGY KURTAG (* 1926)
Selection from »Játékok« (»Games«)

Hommage à Farkas Ferenc 3
Les Adieux in Janáček’s Manier
Sirens of the Deluge
An Apocryphal Hymn (In the Style of Alfred Schnittke)
Hommage à Farkas Ferenc 2
Piano two hands (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Furious Chorale
Bells (Hommage à Stravinsky)
Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály
Piano fours hands

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Allegro in A minor for piano four hands, D 947 »Lebensstürme«

Intermission

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Fugue in E minor for piano four hands, D 952

GYÖRGY KURTAG
Selection from »Játékok« (»Games«)

Aus der Ferne (Alfred Schlee Zum 80. Geburtstag)
The Little Squall
Hommage à Schubert
Hommage tardif à Karskaya
Choral (for Benjamin Rajeczky’s 80th birthday)
Piano two hands (Bertrand Chamayou)

Study to Hölderlin
Kyrie
Hommage à Soproni
Piano fours hands

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Fantasy in F minor for piano four hands, D 940
Allegro molto moderato – Largo – Allegro vivace with trio – Tempo I

Programme

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)

Der Wanderer (Schmidt v. Lübeck), D 489
Wehmut (M. v. Collin), D 772
Der Jüngling und der Tod (Spaun), D 545
Fahrt zum Hades (Mayrhofer), D 526
Schatzgräbers Begehr (Schober), D 761
Grenzen der Menschheit (Goethe), D 716
Das Heimweh (Pyrker), D 851
Gesänge des Harfners I-III (Goethe), D 478
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß
An die Türen will ich schleichen
Pilgerweise (Schober), D 789
Des Fischers Liebesglück (Leitner), D 933
Der Winterabend (Leitner), D 938
Abendstern (Mayrhofer), D 806
Die Sommernacht (Klopstock), D 289
Der liebliche Stern (Schulze), D 861