A single hand must conquer the entire keyboard: Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand was originally composed for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein. High-flyer Yuja Wang takes up this extreme challenge to the pianist’s dexterity and then goes on to play a second piano concerto. In Einojuhani Rautavaara’s work, composed in 1969, cantabile melodies and arpeggios meet a modern musical language – a powerful fireworks display between tradition and new beginnings.
PERFORMERS
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra orchestra
Yuja Wang piano
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
PROGRAM
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 45
- Interval -
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major
Claude Debussy
La mer
