Schiff, Lupu / Weber, Hindemith, Beethoven by Von Weber, Hindemith, Beethoven, Fra (2011/2011), Dirigent Heinrich Schiff, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

After winning the international piano competition in Leeds in 1969, Radu Lupu began a worldwide career in which the Rumanian pianist has focused ever more intently on German classical and romantic repertoire over the course of time. At these evening performances in the Wiener Konzerthaus, the enigmatic musical personality takes on Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto. It is this concerto that definitively left the strict forms of the Viennese Classic behind and opened wide the door to brand new forms of musical expression. Standing on the podium of the Wiener Symphoniker will be Heinrich Schiff, the world-class, Austrian cellist and First Guest Conductor of Bruckner-Orchester Linz.