Tim Mulleman °1993
SOV Composers’ Academy - Creation
Nikolai Medtner 1880–1951
Piano Concerto no. 3, op. 60 – ‘Ballade’
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893
Symphony no. 4, op. 36
duration concert → 1h 50min
including 20min intermission
Tchaikovsky wrote his Fourth Symphony during a personal annus horribilis. Raging storms, intense loneliness and – in spite of everything – a heroic, almost Beethovenian conclusion. Was Tchaikovsky trying to overcome his own darkness? The Estonian conductor Risto Joost guides you through the troubled waters. With the music of Medtner, Rachmaninov’s friend and contemporary, pianist Severin von Eckardstein puts an exciting discovery on the music stand: romantic, timeless, and highly virtuoso.
