Wednesday19.30
Musikverein Wien, Great Hall

Shani, Bronfman / Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich

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Philippe Jordan recently honoured him as probably the “best contemporary pianist”: With the Grammy winner Yefim Bronfman, the Wiener Symphoniker havesagain been able to engage an absolutely exceptional artist as Artist in Residence for the 2019-20 season. You will hear him perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Lahav Shani. Listening to Bronfman is like “being in a crowded room where a particularly profound interlocutor starts to talk and everyone suddenly falls silent to listen to him with spellbound attention”, the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES once described Bronfman’s effect on the audience. His playing is positively absolutist: It completely captivates everyone and leaves no room, time or thoughts for anything else. At the same time, it never stays the same. “I rather consider tradition a very thick crust that we drag along on our shoe soles”, Bronfman once explained his artistic approach. “Beyond that, we usually forget what is really important, what the substance is. I try to play differently – not just to be different, as an end in itself! – but the way I feel it. And this changes from performance to performance. My playing is completely different from night to night, and this happens quite naturally, but, of course, within certain limits of the acceptable, of what is appropriate to a given piece.”

Performers

Lahav Shani 
conductor 
Yefim Bronfman 
piano 
Wiener Symphoniker
orchestra 

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninow
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in d minor op. 30
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in d minor op. 30
1909
42min
1st movement: Allegro ma non tanto
2nd movement: Intermezzo. Adagio
3rd movement: Finale. Alla breve
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20min
Composer: ***

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Group

Musikverein Wien

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