| ›First the Melody‹
Darius Milhaud
Musique pour Lisbonne op. 420
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major op. 21 Hob XVIII:11
Symphony No. 54 in G major Hob I:54
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7th Première Subscription Concert
20-11-2008, 08:00 PM
Bremen, The Glocke
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| Soloists
| Florian Donderer, Director and Violin
Piotr Anderszewski, Piano
| Program
| Unlike pianists C. P. E. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, Haydn did not appear as an interpreter of his works. His chief contribution to this instrument is the integration of concerto elements into the piano sonata. The last and most popular of Haydn's five piano concertos, the D major Concerto, dates from 1784. The 35-year-old composer created a work of amusing musical conversation in the style of his day. To dismiss his piano works as precursors of Beethoven would mean ignoring the originality of Haydn's music. The clarity, intensity, and wit of his musical thinking also characterize his symphonic oeuvre. Haydn composed for his age with overwhelming success. To this day, leading orchestras train sound and articulation with his works.
»The most difficult thing in music is to write a melody of several bars that satisfies oneself«. Skillful transformation of catchy popular music characterizes the work of Darius Milhaud. His ›Musique pour Lisbonne‹ for chamber orchestra was composed for the Gulbenkian Festival in 1966.
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