Orchestre Français des Jeunes / Elisabeth Leonskaja / Kristiina Poska

• Classical Music

Elisabeth Leonskaja once revealed the secret of her success as an artist: »You shouldn’t look for yourself in the music, but rather for the music in yourself.« More than 40 years after her breakthrough at the Salzburg Festival, the pianist is still one of the world’s undisputed top artists in her field. In 2006 the »Grande Dame of the Piano« was even awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class for her special services to music. For her concert at the Elbphilharmonie, she has unearthed a work that otherwise leads a rather shadowy existence in the concert world: Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto.
The work is full of pianistic discoveries and beautiful melodies, with several highly virtuoso solo cadenzas in the first movement and a trio dialogue between piano, violin and cello in the second, as well as a typically lively Tchaikovsky finale. Leonskaja will be accompanied by Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska and the best youth orchestra from France, which has been conducted by Silvain Cambreling, Marek Janowski and Dennis Russel Davis, among others, in its rich history. In the second half of the concert, the orchestra presents Robert Schumann’s musical memories of his journey through the Rhineland, which he captured in his Third Symphony.

PERFORMERS

Orchestre Français des Jeunes orchestra

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Kristiina Poska conductor

PROGRAM

Hector Berlioz
Ouvertüre zu »Benvenuto Cellini« op. 23

Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G major, Op. 44

- Interval -

Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 »Rhenish«