Music
The Berlin Philharmonic: The Digital Concert Hall

6th Concert 2019

Mon, 06/03/2019
12:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Herbert Blomstedt and Yefim Bronfman

Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
Soloist: Yefim Bronfman

Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, op. 19
Yefim Bronfman, piano

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Symphony No. 2 in G minor, op. 34

In July 2017 Herbert Blomstedt, the doyen among the great conductors, celebrated his 90th birthday, and he is still internationally active - here as a guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with whom he enjoys a close musical partnership. The latter also applies to Yefim Bronfman, who most recently performed Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto in the Philharmonic Concertos. Now the American pianist will dedicate himself to the B flat major Concerto op. 19, which Beethoven wrote for himself.
After the intermission, the rarely performed Second Symphony by Wilhelm Stenhammar, who studied in Berlin and dedicated his concert overture Excelsior! 1896 to the Berliner Philharmoniker, is on the program.