MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER Yuja Wang • Valery Gergiev

THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER Yuja Wang • Valery Gergiev

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 Say / Volodos Paraphrase on Mozart’s Alla Turca Tchaikovsky Pas de deux from The Nutcracker Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER Yuja Wang • Valery Gergiev

JOHANNES BRAHMS Munich’s Odeonsplatz Concert is one of the open-air highlights of the year. The magnificent Residenz Palace on one side and the serene, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 towering Theatinerkirche on the other provide the ideal backdrop MODEST MUSSORGSKY for exceptional performances of classical music. In this setting, Pictures at an Exhibition Chinese star pianist Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev and the Münchner (Orchestration: Maurice Ravel) Philharmoniker present an atmospheric concert programme consisting of two works which are at the same time popular and demanding. – Encores – Yuja Wang, who is at home at the world’s most prestigious concert halls, “seems to have everything: speed, flexibility, pianistic thunder SERGEI PROKOFIEV and interpretive nuance” (The New York Times). The power of her Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83 interpretations emerges from a distinct combination of her exceptional III. Precipitato presence on stage and technically scintillating performances on the FAZIL SAY / ARCADI VOLODOS piano. “Yuja Wang brings the two qualities that not just impress on the Paraphrase on Mozart’s Alla Turca Odeonsplatz: an exorbitant virtuoso and a touch of dreamlike beauty“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a real challenge in terms of technical Pas de deux from The Nutcracker complexity, has been accompanying Yuja Wang for several years. With its high intensity and deep-rooted romance, it is one of her absolutely MIKHAIL GLINKA favourite concerts. She performs it “with vertiginous virtuosity, Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila somnambulistic sovereignty, a fine sense of dramaturgy and rhythmic perfection” (Münchner Merkur). Orchestra Münchner Philharmoniker As second part of the open air concert, Gergiev and the Münchner Conductor Valery Gergiev Philharmoniker perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. This work’s variety of colourful impressions finds its perfect reflection Piano Yuja Wang in the musical interpretation, allowing Gergiev and his orchestra to display three of their well-known strengths: spontaneity, experience and a multi-faceted sound. Conducting with “a secure sense for Video Director Andreas Morell creating effects without gimmickry” Süddeutsche( Zeitung), Gergiev is able to carry through the slow tempi of internal tension as well. Length: approx. 110' The “glittering music festival” (Münchner Merkur) is rounded off by Shot in HDTV 1080/50i popular encores from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Glinka’s Ruslan and Cat. no. A 055 50698 0000 Lyudmila and the breakneck “Precipitato” of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7. A particularly artistic paraphrase on Mozart’s Alla Turca grants A production of BR for standing ovations. in co-production with UNITEL and medici.tv

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