the Concert will take place in the famous “piano” and the architectural design of the Concert hall Grieg (NOK. Grieghallen) – the residence of the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra. You will hear the Piano Concerto in a minor Grieg performed by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Bergen Philharmonic orchestra with conductor Edward Gardner. By the way, British conductor, currently headed by a Norwegian team, next year will leave Bergen and will succeed Vladimir Jurowski as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic orchestra (LPO).
meanwhile, the history of the Bergen orchestra is closely connected with the name of Edvard Grieg, who participated in the life of the team and creatively, and financially. And for several years he was the principal conductor of this orchestra. The program that will sound the birthday of Grieg, was to be executed before the start of the pandemic at the final concert season of the orchestra, before his big tour of Asia. But these plans, like any other projects around the musical world was never realized. A piano concert will sound now a day, a remarkable fact that the Norwegian audience will come back after a long break in the hall. Pianist Ove has Andsnes is one of the leading interpreters grohovski music, knows him well and the audience who heard this concert in his performance in the program of the Russian national orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev. About Ove Andsnes magazine gramophone wrote that “no matter how many times it has not performed the Grieg, he always retains a freshness and expressiveness of his music, it sounds as if spontaneously, is born at this moment.”
meanwhile, the concert at the Bergen hall is not quite common. Instead of 1,500 people in the public Grughalle will be only 400 people, according to the new sanitary norms related to the conduct of mass events. And all of these first students, specially invited guests musicians dedicating it: doctors, staff from the health, transport, trade, crisis management and others. As noted by the leadership of the Bergen Philharmonic
We do this in order to pay tribute to all the people who worked hard for a long time, keeping the spread of the coronavirus, saved lives and kept all important social functions.
help “RG”
concert dedicated to the birthday of Edvard Grieg, will be broadcast live in 18 hours (European time).
Speaking
From may 20 to June 3 at the Bergen music festival with the participation of Ove Andsnes in an online format. In the programme there were works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok, Widmann pärt.
on Youtube.
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