2nd Concert 2019
Berliner Philharmoniker
Dirigent: Mariss Jansons
Soloist: Evgenyj Kissin (Piano)
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus spoke Zarathustra), op. 30
Franz Liszt
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major
Evgeny Kissin piano
Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Overture
Mariss Jansons, who the Berliner Philharmoniker made an honorary member in January 2018, conducts Franz Liszt’s heroic and brilliant Piano Concerto in E flat major which leads its listeners into a veritable labyrinth of interconnected movements and circulating themes.
Before the Piano Concerto, we hear Richard Strauss’ tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra. The young Strauss declared his aim was not to write “philosophical music” or to attempt to “represent Nietzsche’s great work musically”, rather, the composer was fascinated by Nietzsche’s fundamental social criticism and the Dionysian approach to life. The outlandish theory of the “superhuman” is transformed in Strauss’s interpretation into a reflection on the natural powers of man, with whose help he can take up the fight against mediocrity and backwardness.
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