Wiener Philharmoniker / Sternath / Sokhiev

Performers:

Vienna Philharmonic
Lukas Sternath, piano
Great Talent
Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

Grotesque humor
»The child, namely America, was not grown up enough for new music«, said Sergei Prokofiev in 1921 after the failure of his third piano concerto following its premiere in Chicago. Today, the work, which combines echoes of jazz and Russian music, is one of his most popular compositions. Great talent and pianistic shooting star Lukas Sternath interprets the lively and virtuoso composition, for whose premiere Prokofiev himself sat at the keys.

Stravinsky in Paris
In 1918, he left his homeland after the October Revolution - just like Igor Stravinsky. He had previously traveled to Paris several times, where he composed music for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After »The Firebird« in 1910, »Petrushka« was premiered there in 1911, in which the marionettes come to life in the St. Petersburg fairground hustle and bustle. Tugan Sokhiev, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow from 2014 to 2022 and Chief Conductor of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse from 2008 to 2022, conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.

programme

Sergej Prokofjew
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 C-Dur op. 26 (1917–1921)

Igor Strawinski
Petruschka. Burleske in vier Szenen (Originalfassung) (1910–1911)