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Over three consecutive days, Igor Levit sets off on a marathon with Sergei Prokofiev's five brilliant piano concertos, which span the young composer's unbridled creativity through to his mature mastery in kaleidoscopic fashion. Levit is accompanied by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer, which is very familiar with this kind of tour de force. In his first piano concerto, Sergei Prokofiev amazes with his rhythmic effervescence and sharp-tongued percussiveness. In addition to this and the fifth piano concerto, the work of a seemingly "Liberated Time" can be heard: the fifth "Symphony of the Greatness of the Human Spirit", whose premiere in 1945 was accompanied by the announcement of the victorious Red Army.
Notenschlüssel: Concert introduction with Igor Levit and Anselm Cybinski at 19:00 at the Heidelberg Congress Center (made possible by Heidelberger Frühling Freundeskreis e.V.)
Can also be booked as a pass (includes all three concerts).
Further dates:
All Prokofiev Piano Concertos II: Wed 26 March 2025, 20:00, Heidelberg Congress Center
All Prokofiev Piano Concertos III: Thu 27 March 2025, 20:00, Heidelberg Congress Center
Igor Levit
Piano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer
Conductor
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major op. 10
Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major op. 55
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major op. 100
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The Budapest Festival Orchestra, lead by Iván Fischer, the Music Director and a founder of The Budapest Festival Orchestra, performs in the Paris Philharmonie on Tuesday, 26.May.2015. Photo by Akos Stiller
Iván Fischer
