EuroArtsChannel | Yuja Wang & Claudio Abbado: Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26: I. Andante Allegro @Euroarts | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
From the Lucerne Festival 2009 at the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern:
Yuja Wang and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26: Mvt. 1, under the baton of Claudio Abbado (1933-2014).
On January 20th, 2024 – the 10th death anniversary of Claudio Abbado – we celebrate the legendary conductor's life and work.
Watch the full performance here: youtu.be/q4TyQ97Jcr0
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Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26: I. Andante – Allegro
Yuja Wang - soloist
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
About the event
Whenever Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music lovers are in for a very special event. Such was the case in the summer of 2009 when the charismatic Italian conductor opened Lucerne's tradition-rich Festival with a concert featuring Mahler's First Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In 2003 Abbado, together with Artistic and Executive Director Michael Haefliger, founded the orchestra, which consists of internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians - just as did its model, the elite body of musicians that Arturo Toscanini gathered around hirn at the Festival's founding in 1938. lt was with this first-class ensemble that Abbado offered a vividly inspired interpretation of the Mahler. In truth - as the audience's response demonstrated - it left nothing to be desired. The twenty-two-year-old Chinese Pianist Yuja Wang likewise earned enthusiastic applause for her account of the Prokofiev Concerto, which she played with character and nuanced expression.
The theme of nature served es the guiding thread for all the programming choices during the summer of 2009 - a theme with obvious relevance for the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is held amid one of the most beautitul landscapes of Europe: its concerts incIude unforgettable views of Lake Lucerne and Alpine panoramas. This theme, es it happens, has eminent musical significance es well: 'Like a sound of nature' is the direction Mahler inscribed at the very beginning of the First Symphony.
Produced by EuroArts Music International
in co-production with ZDF and SF DRS,
in cooperation with ARTE and Lucerne Festival
© 2009, EuroArts Music International / ZDF / SF DRS / ARTE / Lucerne Festival
From the Lucerne Festival 2009 at the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern:
Yuja Wang and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26: Mvt. 1, under the baton of Claudio Abbado (1933-2014).
On January 20th, 2024 – the 10th death anniversary of Claudio Abbado – we celebrate the legendary conductor's life and work.
Watch the full performance here: youtu.be/q4TyQ97Jcr0
Subscribe to EuroArts: goo.gl/jrui3M
Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26: I. Andante – Allegro
Yuja Wang - soloist
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
About the event
Whenever Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music lovers are in for a very special event. Such was the case in the summer of 2009 when the charismatic Italian conductor opened Lucerne's tradition-rich Festival with a concert featuring Mahler's First Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In 2003 Abbado, together with Artistic and Executive Director Michael Haefliger, founded the orchestra, which consists of internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians - just as did its model, the elite body of musicians that Arturo Toscanini gathered around hirn at the Festival's founding in 1938. lt was with this first-class ensemble that Abbado offered a vividly inspired interpretation of the Mahler. In truth - as the audience's response demonstrated - it left nothing to be desired. The twenty-two-year-old Chinese Pianist Yuja Wang likewise earned enthusiastic applause for her account of the Prokofiev Concerto, which she played with character and nuanced expression.
The theme of nature served es the guiding thread for all the programming choices during the summer of 2009 - a theme with obvious relevance for the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is held amid one of the most beautitul landscapes of Europe: its concerts incIude unforgettable views of Lake Lucerne and Alpine panoramas. This theme, es it happens, has eminent musical significance es well: 'Like a sound of nature' is the direction Mahler inscribed at the very beginning of the First Symphony.
Produced by EuroArts Music International
in co-production with ZDF and SF DRS,
in cooperation with ARTE and Lucerne Festival
© 2009, EuroArts Music International / ZDF / SF DRS / ARTE / Lucerne Festival
