Prokofiev Pass

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.
Dates:
All Prokofiev Piano Concertos I: Tue 25 March 2025, 20:00, Heidelberg Congress Center
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
Notenschlüssel: Concert introductions with Igor Levit and Anselm Cybinski at 19:00 at the Heidelberg Congress Center (made possible by Heidelberger Frühling Freundeskreis e.V.)
With the Prokofiev Pass for all three concerts, you save up to 25% on the price of individual tickets.
Igor Levit
Piano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer
Conductor
Tue 25. 3. 2025, 20:00
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
Wed 26. 3. 2025, 20:00
Sergei Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew Themes op. 34
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major op. 26
Suite from the ballet "Cinderella"
Thu 27. 3. 2025, 20:00
Sergei Prokofiev
Suite from the opera "The Love for Three Oranges" op. 33
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor op. 16
Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major op. 53
Symphony No. 1 in D major op. 25

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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