Camerata Salzburg: Mozart / BrahmsHélène Grimaud (piano)
This event is in the past.
When Hélène Grimaud heard Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto in D minor for the first time as a 13-year-old, she instantly fell in love with it. It was, as she recently explained in an interview, an experience that precipitated deep-rooted changes in her. She now performs the work together with Camerata Salzburg at the Isarphilharmonie.
This event is in the past.
When Hélène Grimaud heard Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto in D minor for the first time as a 13-year-old, she instantly fell in love with it. It was, as she recently explained in an interview, an experience that precipitated deep-rooted changes in her. She now performs the work together with Camerata Salzburg at the Isarphilharmonie.
Hélène Grimaud has an intimate relationship with Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto in D minor, which she has already recorded twice. Brahms originally wrote the work as a sonata at the age of 21, later transforming it into a large-scale piano concerto that challenged the conventions of its genre. Grimaud is fascinated by the work’s deeply personal character: “It seems to me as if he wrote it ‘in the first person’; it’s as if he was laying out detailed memoirs before us.”
The French pianist, whose global career spans 30 years and counting, is equally active in other fields: having made a name for herself as a human rights activist and author of several novels, she is also committed to saving wolves threatened with extinction. But music remains her primary medium of all-encompassing self-expression.
Programme
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550
- Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
With
- Camerata Salzburg
- Hélène Grimaud, piano
- Giovanni Guzzo, violin & conductor
