| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Concierto para violín, violonchelo y piano en do mayor 'Triple concierto', Op.56 | |
| Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) | Una vida de héroe, poema sinfónico, Op.40 |
| Santtu-Matias Rouvali | Dirección |
| Nicola Benedetti | Violín |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason | Violonchelo |
| Benjamin Grosvenor | Piano |
| Philharmonia Orchestra |
Three superstars join Santtu and the Philharmonia for their season finale, featuring Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.
A concert featuring just one of these fantastic soloists would be a treat – here’s your chance to hear all three of them performing together. They pool their talents for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. Most likely composed for Beethoven’s royal pupil the Archduke Rudolf, this is music full of suitably aristocratic charm and sparkle.
To end the Philharmonia’s 2022/23 season, Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali has chosen Strauss’s musical autobiography, entitled with considerable self-confidence A Hero’s Life. The piece opens with swaggering horns – “quite the thing to express heroism”, as Strauss wrote to a friend. We hear a tender portrait of ‘the hero’s companion’, and vividly-drawn depictions of his struggles. At last our hero finds fulfilment and the music comes to a serene and radiant end.