Frederic Chopin took the piano and transformed it into the ultimate vehicle for the Romantic imagination. But there’s a burning fire beneath the poetry of his music: or as one contemporary put it ‘cannons hidden in flowers’. In the hands of Vasily Petrenko and Bruce Liu – winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition – his Second Piano Concerto will blaze as never before: a passionate counterpart to two classics from 1940s America. Both Korngold and Bartók fled from fascism to the New World, and Korngold’s swashbuckling film score is practically a hymn to freedom. Bartók’s spectacular Concerto for Orchestra, meanwhile, is more than just a multicoloured showcase for a great orchestra at the top of its game. It’s a struggle between darkness and light, crowned by a mighty shout of joy.
Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Bruce Liu Piano
Korngold The Sea Hawk: Main Theme, Reunion and Finale
Chopin Piano Concerto No.2
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Frederic Chopin took the piano and transformed it into the ultimate vehicle for the Romantic imagination. But there’s a burning fire beneath the poetry of his music: or as one contemporary put it ‘cannons hidden in flowers’. In the hands of Vasily Petrenko and Bruce Liu – winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition – his Second Piano Concerto will blaze as never before: a passionate counterpart to two classics from 1940s America. Both Korngold and Bartók fled from fascism to the New World, and Korngold’s swashbuckling film score is practically a hymn to freedom. Bartók’s spectacular Concerto for Orchestra, meanwhile, is more than just a multicoloured showcase for a great orchestra at the top of its game. It’s a struggle between darkness and light, crowned by a mighty shout of joy.
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