Sir Bryn Terfel - Elbphilharmonie Hamburg - Grand Opening Concert - DVD

?Hélène Grimaud headlines a spectacular evening with the illustrious Camerata Salzburg, directed from the front desk by concertmaster Giovanni Guzzo, at the famed Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She selected pieces that are all in minor keys yet composed during intensely creative periods in both Mozart's and Schumann's careers. Mozart did not write many works in minor tonalities but Grimaud chose it, because it Inchprovides a glimpse behind the mask of jollity that surrounds many of his famous works. Inch As an encore a work by another composer to have accompanied Grimaud through much of her career, Valentin Silvestrov. InchHélène Grimaud and the Salzburg Camerata hypnotise the audience in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie on this unforgettable evening with piano concertos of the early romantic era of Mozart and Schumann that are unique in terms of sound. Inch (operaversum. De)

The pianist SoRyang, born in Korea and educated in Seoul, in Essen/Germany (as a pupil of the renowned pianist Detlef Kraus) and in Vienna/Austria, emerged far beyond Austria with her idea to popularize Classical piano music on historical places of big European cities. SoRyang performed worldwide with renowned orchestras, among them the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She has recorded numerous CDs. In 2019 she performed together with the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich under the baton of it's chief conductor Yutaka Sado (who earlier has been the assistant of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, and later has produced popular television programs for the understanding of Classical Music in Japan) in the impressing grand hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg/Germany. SoRyang played Tchaikovsky's famous piano concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor and as an encore Chopin's barnstorming last etude, Op. 25 No. 12. After the intermission Mahler's fifth symphony was played. The concert has been recorded for the present .

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in works by Schubert/Webern, Josef Strauss, and Schubert.