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The Piano Concerto in B-flat minor is perhaps the most popular work by Tchaikovsky, who originally wrote the piece for Nikolai Rubinstein. However, the pianist shrank from the extraordinary technical difficulty of the work, which was eventually premièred in Boston in 1875 by its new dedicatee Hans von Bülow, the piano virtuoso and conductor recognised as one of the leading musicians of his time. “It’s very difficult, but it’s worth the effort,” he wrote about the concerto, which soon became regarded as a benchmark of pianistic skill. With the exceptional richness of its flowing melodies, it is one of the most frequently played concertos in the Romantic repertoire. Novgorod-born Daniil Trifonov won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of 20 in 2011, as well as several special prizes at these competitions. In 2009, he took third prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and a special prize for the best mazurka performer. The audience at this concert of the Budapest Festival Orchestra will thus have the chance to hear an interpretation of this Tchaikovsky masterwork by a young musician in the early stages of a steeply ascending career.
Anton Bruckner himself gave the subtitle “Romantic” to his Symphony No. 4. The programme notes written for the opening movement serve only to strengthen this association: “A mediaeval city – daybreak – morning clarion calls sound from the city towers – the gates open – on proud horses the knights burst out into the open – the magic of the forest envelops them – forest murmurs, bird song – and so the Romantic picture develops.”
Cast and Creative team for Budapest Festival Orchestra at Bartók Béla National Concert Hall
Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy
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