HEROIC BEETHOVEN

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Concerto n°4
Symphony No.3 « Eroica »

With his fourth piano concerto, written in 1808, Beethoven inaugurated a new genre, somewhere between orchestral symphony and fantasy for piano. Introspective and soaked with lyricism, the work is surprising for the absence of pathos and strife. Here, Nicholas Angelich – winner of the Instrumental Soloist of the Year award at the 2013 Victoires de la musique classique – then Kotaro Fukuma, on a Romantic piano with its unique sounds, perform a work in which, for the first time in the history of the genre, the piano opens alone against the orchestra. The piece catches Beethoven in a dreamy mood, tender rather than incandescent. His Third Symphony, ushering in musical Romanticism, is one of his best-loved works and ground-breaking for its length, being the first symphony to exceed 30 minutes.

COPRODUCTION PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS, INSULA ORCHESTRA