Archive: Lars Vogt plays Beethoven

St. Pölten Festspielhaus Großer Saal Festspielhaus | Großer Saal

Instrumentation

  • Lars Vogt, piano
  • Antonio Méndez, conductor

Programmes

Ludwig van Beethoven’s second piano concerto is not generally known as being part of a modern concert pianist’s repertoire. The Tonkunstler are all the more pleased to perform the piece together with exceptional artist Lars Vogt, who counts among the leading piano virtuosos of his generation. The delightful work took some time in the making and underwent several rewritings, and, incidentally, it does entirely without timpani and trumpets. The fifth symphony by Gustav Mahler was also reworked several times. «The Fifth is a cursed work. Nobody understands it», Mahler complained in 1905 after an unsuccessful performance in Hamburg. This was to change: the gentle Adagietto has become one of the most popular compositions of the fin-de-siècle master, not least on account of it being the opening music in Luchino Visconti’s legendary film version of Thomas Mann’s «Death in Venice» from 1971.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major op. 19

Movements

  • Allegro con brio

  • Adagio

  • Rondo. Molto allegro

Duration

24 Min.

Creation

1787-1801
Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5 in c-sharp minor

Movements

  • I. Abteilung. Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt. Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz

  • II. Abteilung. Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell

  • III. Abteilung. Adagietto. Sehr langsam. Rondo-Finale. Allegro

Duration

72 Min.

Creation

1902-11