Brahms & Beethoven
- Location:
- Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Berliner Platz 1-3, 70174 Stuttgart
The season ends as it began - with Beethoven! But this time, Beethoven's probably
most famous symphony, the Symphony No. 5, which has become known as the Symphony of Fate, is juxtaposed with a piano concerto by Johannes Brahms. His second piano concerto was composed 22 years after the first work in this genre and is partly symphonic in scale. And yet Brahms himself wrote about the work to Elisabeth von Herzogenberg that he had written "a very small piano concerto with a very small, delicate scherzo". The soloist in this concert will be the 21-year-old American Caleb Borick, who won the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in 2023. But at the beginning of the concert, we head up north to the Scottish Hebrides: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was privileged by his wealthy family, enabling him to undertake numerous journeys - including to Scotland, to the Hebrides, whose rugged beauty he translated into nature.
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to "The Hebrides", op. 26, MWV P 7
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, op. 83
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 "Symphony of Destiny"
Caleb Borick, piano
Alexander Hülshoff, conductor