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On the second day of the Prokofiev cycle, the third piano concerto is on the programme, which is still considered to be the Russian's most popular. The wildness is somewhat reduced here and the harmony is toned down, allowing the folksong-like and lyrical character to come to the fore. The Overture on Hebrew Themes, which Prokofiev composed in 1919 for a chamber music ensemble of friends and reworked for small orchestra fifteen years later, adds a melancholy klezmer tone. And another popular piece by Prokofiev will be heard: an orchestral suite from the ballet "Cinderella", which was created in the 1940s.
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 I: Tue 25. 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
Overture on Hebrew Themes op. 34
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major op. 26
Suite from the ballet "Cinderella"
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Oceanic, glacial, colossal: Sergei Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto seduces with big words. Some even find it unplayable. Not so Igor Levit, whom the piece has accompanied since his youth. In Heidelberg, he performs it in front of an audience for the first time after a ten-year break. In conversation with Maria Gnann, he reveals what he considers to be the golden point of the work, when a volcano erupts - and along the way, erotic shivers, a narrating grandfather and gnomes also appear.
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Ivan Fischer Photo: Marco Borggreve
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
