Beethoven y Bruckner
The first marks the music of the whole century. The second stands in its shadow to approach it with its imposing symphonic legacy. This is how the Sinfónica de Castilla y León, conducted by the great Petersburg maestro Vasily Petrenko, offers a concert which in the first part of the programme features another luxury guest, the great lady of the piano Elisabeth Leonskaja, who plays Beethoven's Concerto No. 4, written in the key of G major and which in recent years has been growing in reputation among performers to the point of gaining in prestige over the famous Emperor. This time it is the Fourth, known as the Romantic, possibly the most popular of all Bruckner's symphonies, who wrote it in 1874 and revised it countless times, as usual, until 1888.
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58 (1805-06)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 ‘Romantica’ (1877-80. Ed. Leopold Nowak/Robert Haas)