Berlin Baroque Soloists

Visions of the future - In the 2023/24 season, pianist of the century Daniil Trifonov caused an international sensation when he performed Beethoven's infamous Hammerklavier Sonata from the Salzburg Festspielhaus to New York's Carnegie Hall. The press was amazed at the transparency, lightness and ease with which he brought new facets to this colossus.

The Albert Concerts' celebratory concert in the Beethoven Year 2027 focuses on the forward-looking nature of a composer whose thinking was far ahead of his time. 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, it is not the past that will be evoked, but the present and the impact of his music that will be made audible. Together with the Berlin Baroque Soloists and under the direction of Gottfried von der Goltz, a program is created that illuminates Beethoven's development in the context of his time - between tradition, appropriation and reinvention. Trifonov plays on the historical fortepiano, which inspired Beethoven to an expanded understanding of dynamics and expression. The path to the future always led via the traditional: the program also features Mozart and Bach's sons Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

However, Beethoven's pioneering spirit extended far beyond the piano. In the Grosse Fuge op. 133 - in the festival concert in Beethoven's string version, in the chamber music cycle in the original quartet version - he radically condenses his thinking: the entire work unfolds from a thematic core. The Great Fugue thus becomes one of the boldest and most visionary drafts of his oeuvre - an anticipation of the future that impressively confirms the title of our Beethoven Festival Concerto.

Program:
Visions of the future. Beethoven 200 | 2027 - Festival concert

Mozart, Adagio and Fugue in C minor for strings K. 546
Beethoven, "0." Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E flat major WoO 4
Beethoven, "Great Fugue" in B flat major (version for strings) op. 133
C.Ph.E. Bach, Sinfonia for Orchestra in E minor Wq 178
Beethoven, Rondeau for piano and orchestra in B flat major WoO 6

Instrumentation:
Daniil Trifonov, fortepiano
Gottfried von der Goltz, violin and conductor
Berlin Baroque Soloists

With the kind support of the Freunde und Förderer der Albert Konzerte e.V.

EUR 119,- / 109,- / 93,- / 67,- / 52,- incl. fees

Daniil Trifonov | Photo © Dario Acosta