Halle at Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

Date: Sat 13th Nov
Time: 19:30

Markus Stenz conductor
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Preludes to Act 1 and Act 3
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1
Schumann Symphony No.3 ‘Rhenish’

Following his triumphant Mahler performance last season, the Hallé’s Principal Guest conductor Markus Stenz returns with a programme featuring music from three Germanic giants. Two of Wagner’s Preludes to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – his only comic opera – set the upbeat mood of this concert. The esteemed Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja is our soloist for Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto, a joyful example of the young composer inspired by Mozart and Haydn but also asserting his own larger-than-life personality.

Schumann was in unusually optimistic mood when he wrote his 3rd Symphony having become the Municipal Musical Director in Düsseldorf in 1850. Positive energy directs this journey through the Rhineland countryside and its folklore, pausing only for reflection in Cologne Cathedral whose awe-inspiring interior is evoked in some of his most atmospheric music.


Free pre-concert talk, 6.30pm in the auditorium:
Markus Stenz in conversation.

Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

Theatre Square
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 5ND

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