Lucerne Symphony OrchestraHélène Grimaud (piano), Michael Sanderling (conductor)
This coming February, the Gasteig HP8 will welcome piano virtuoso Hélène Grimaud on stage at the Isarphilharmonie. With the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Sanderling, she will perform Ravel’s piano concerto with its lively, colourful instrumentation as well as Liszt’s stately, theatrical Mephisto Waltz and Tchaikovsky’s monumental Symphony No 4.
This coming February, the Gasteig HP8 will welcome piano virtuoso Hélène Grimaud on stage at the Isarphilharmonie. With the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Sanderling, she will perform Ravel’s piano concerto with its lively, colourful instrumentation as well as Liszt’s stately, theatrical Mephisto Waltz and Tchaikovsky’s monumental Symphony No 4.
“My hope in every concert is to express enough emotion to make time stand still.” There is every chance that this is exactly what will happen when Hélène Grimaud plays Maurice Ravel’s magnificent piano concerto in the afterglow of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Her synaesthesia – a phenomenon by which one perceives sounds as colours – lends her performances a special character. With a global career spanning over 30 years, Grimaud is one of the greatest pianists of our time. Besides her musical career, she is a committed animal rights activist and human rights campaigner.
Programme
- Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1, The Dance in the Village Tavern for orchestra
- Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
