András Schiff & Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Sobre o Evento

Hungarian pianist and conductor András Schiff leads the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a performance of Haydn, Schumann, and Schubert in Dijon.

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe lives up to the transnationality and universality of its name, both in the music performed and in the members of the ensemble itself. András Schiff, internationally renowned pianist, won us over previously with his interpretations of Bach and Mozart, whose Concertos he recorded with his compatriot Sándor Vegh and the Mozarteum of Salzbourg. He invites us now to a programme bathed in the tonalities of the Romantics. Haydn in the 1770s was in the midst of his explosive Sturm und Drang period, a German pre‐romantic movement that culminated in literature in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and was of capital importance in raising awareness among artists on the other side of the Rhine about the unity of Germanic culture. “Storm and passion”! It is under this banner that Haydn wrote his Symphony No. 49, one of the darkest from a composer more often associated with a good natured, peasant spirit that hides the ardent fire of emotion. Schumann’s Concerto, conducted here from the piano by András Schiff, counts among his most beautiful works. Dedicated to Clara, the object of his undying love, its supple and spontaneous lyricism, its transparent orchestration, its elegiac flow and its perfect balance make it a rare work, a moment of respite and joy for a composer ever struggling against the forces of anxiety and madness.