Staatskapelle Berlin

In the benchmark interpretation by legendary pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, who can look back on a career spanning more than 60 years, the work opens this evening’s concert featuring the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Christian Thielemann.

After the intermission, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 follows, whose musical nature idylls—including the “Song of the Great Tit Zizipe” (Bruckner)—are, in the composer’s own words, indebted to a “religious-mysterious” Romanticism “à la Lohengrin.”

Lineup

• Staatskapelle Berlin
• Christian Thielemann, conductor
• Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C Major, K. 467

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

Anton Bruckner

Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, “Romantic” (2nd version from 1878/1880)