Honeck & Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a revolutionary who wrote music with heroic gestures and sharp conflicts. But he also had his more lyrical side. This is the case in his Fourth Piano Concerto, a work of the smallest transitions and almost chamber-musical orchestra-piano dialogues. Its poetic power is given special luminosity by Yulianna Avdeeva, since the pianist has so far made a name for herself primarily with Chopin and Schubert. Franz Schmidt wanted his fourth symphony, which he wrote in memory of his daughter who died at an early age, to be understood as an instrumental requiem, as "the last music that one takes with one into the hereafter.