Utopia: Brahms / MahlerTeodor Currentzis (conductor), Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
This event is in the past.
In 2022, Teodor Currentzis fulfilled a dream when he founded a new orchestra: the Utopia. Its members, who perform in various international orchestras, get together on a project basis for each of Utopia’s concerts. The plan for the coming years is to rehearse all of Mahler’s symphonies. This concert will feature Mahler’s Symphony No 4 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 2 with the young French pianist Alexandre Kantorow.
This event is in the past.
In 2022, Teodor Currentzis fulfilled a dream when he founded a new orchestra: the Utopia. Its members, who perform in various international orchestras, get together on a project basis for each of Utopia’s concerts. The plan for the coming years is to rehearse all of Mahler’s symphonies. This concert will feature Mahler’s Symphony No 4 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 2 with the young French pianist Alexandre Kantorow.
No-one in the world of music has polarised opinion in recent years like the orchestra’s conductor and director Teodor Currentzis, who has been variously called “Messiah of the classical music scene”, “mannerist” (both BR-Klassik) and “genius” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). But this is unlikely to upset the self-confident Greek. On the contrary: True art often provokes vehement arguments for and against. What most of those who have experienced Currentzis conducting his orchestras agree on is that here, brilliant musicality and strong interpretative power meet eccentricity and a provocative sense of mission.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B-flat major, Op 83
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major
