Manfred Honeck & Paul Lewis
Programme
Performers
Due to a recent road accident which lead to a hairline fracture in a vertebra, Paul Lewis’ practise and preparation time has been severely compromised. Mr. Lewis will therefore be unable to perform Grieg’s Piano concerto on our April 3 and 4 concerts as originally announced and will play Beethoven’s Piano concerto no. 4 in G major instead.
Information about the programme
Paul Lewis and the BRSO had actually planned to make up for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in these concerts, which was canceled due to the pandemic. Due to a vertebral injury, the British pianist is now playing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto – instead of the young Norwegian’s unabashedly romantic piece, a work that opens the door to the Romantic era. And it would be hard to find a better interpreter than the proven Beethoven specialist Paul Lewis. In conductor Manfred Honeck’s conception, Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet will be brought to life with a more expressive, or, to be precise, more Dadaist character: rhythmically concise, ecstatically pulsating – a playful new territory for the BRSO musicians. And, indeed, every concert that includes the Eroica is bound to be one of the highlights of an orchestral season.
The concert on the radio
BR-KLASSIK will broadcast the concert live on the radio on Friday, 4 April 2025, from 8:03 pm.
