Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuja Wang / Esa-Pekka Salonen

High-performance musical sport

A single hand must conquer the entire keyboard. Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand was originally composed for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein. Yuja Wang, the extravagant top-class pianist, takes on this challenge of extreme dexterity and immediately plays a second piano concerto. In Einojuhani Rautavaara's work, composed in 1969, cantabile melodies and arpeggios meet a modern tonal language - a powerful firework display between tradition and new beginnings.

Instrumentation

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Yuja WangPiano

ConductorEsa-Pekka Salonen

Program

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C major op. 105

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 op. 45

-Intermission -

Maurice Ravel
Piano concerto for the left hand in D major

Claude Debussy
La mer / Three symphonic sketches

Venue: Elbphilharmonie / Great Hall

Organizer: HamburgMusik