Freiheit

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New Horizons Napoleon's troops stood at the gates of Vienna when Ludwig van Beethoven composed his 5th Piano Concerto. Cannon fire? Yes, it can be heard in the first movement, but afterwards Beethoven drifts into distant and surprisingly delicate worlds. To freedom with music! And such music that is in the best hands with a sensitive pianist like the Swiss Francesco Piemontesi. In Switzerland, more precisely in Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, Richard Wagner, overjoyed at the birth of his son, wrote the brightly shining Siegfried Idyll. A family story is also hinted at in Richard Strauss's opera Intermezzo, where an unfaithful composer is cunningly guided back on the right path by his wife. Strauss himself wrote the libretto. Similarities to and allusions to real persons were quite welcome. The violinist and conductor Renaud Capuçon and the Basel Symphony Orchestra with an allusive program. Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor", - Pause -, Richard Wagner "Siegfried Idyll" in E major, WWV 103, Richard Strauss Four symphonic interludes from "Intermezzo", TrV 246 Participants and additional information: Francesco Piemontesi Piano Renaud Capuçon Conductor Basel Symphony Orchestra Orchestra