MUSIC

    Grimaud Plays Beethoven

    Grimaud Plays Beethoven

    Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

    February 3-February 5, 2011


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    Friend of Mahler and Schoenberg, the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt composed two towering masterpieces, The Book of Seven Seals and the Symphony No. 4 of 1932. The latter's plaintive strains are reminiscent at times of Bruckner, at times of Richard Strauss and early Schoenberg. Italian-born Fabio Luisi--principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the Semperoper, and soon to be general director of Zurich Opera--makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut with this oft-neglected masterpiece, and is joined by French-born pianist Hélène Grimaud in Beethoven's tensile Fourth Concerto. Franz Liszt and others have characterized Beethoven's dramatic central movement as representing Orpheus taming the Furies at the gate of Hades. Luisi opens the program with the potpourri of tunes Weber used as the "Overture" to his opera Der Freischütz, including the famously bizarre "Wolf's Glen" music.


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        Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

        300 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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        Tickets:

        $20-$130

        Info Phone: 215.893.1999

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 3-February 5, 2011

        Times:

        Thursday @ 8 pm
        Saturday @ 8 pm

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