In February, the Ljubljana Festival organizes the Winter Festival 2020 in the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet. At the fourth, now traditional, selected internationally renowned pianists will perform accompanied by the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and will present the most beautiful piano and symphonic works from Beethoven's vast musical treasury.
Winter Festival 2020 this time pays tribute to a musical virtuoso To Ludwig van Beethoven. We are celebrating next year 250th anniversary of his birth of the great composer, who paid special attention to the right in his rich opus the piano. Among others, Ludwig van Beethoven years 1819 became one of the honorary members of the Philharmonic Society, exactly one year after the first performance of his Pastoral Symphony in Ljubljana. Beethoven even sent the Philharmonic Society a transcription of the score with handwritten corrections; it is stored in the National and University Library in Ljubljana.
The first evening of the 4th Winter Festival will be inaugurated by Beethoven's third version of the overture, which the composer wrote for his only opera, Leonora. S Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in C major, Op. 15, will introduce herself in the first part one of the greatest interpreters of the classical and romantic repertoire of Imogen Cooper. Alexey Volodin, a regular musical guest of the world's most famous orchestras, will learn in the second part Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. The selected works will be performed accompanied by the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Bojan Suđič, one of the most prominent Serbian conductors of the younger generation.
On the second concert evening of the 4th Winter Festival, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra will perform under the baton of a Hungarian conductor András Keller, who, among other things, is the founder of the famous Keller String Quartet. Together with the orchestra, they will present themselves in solo roles while living in Spain Cuban pianist Leonel Morales and a Slovenian pianist Tatjana Ognjanović. You will be able to listen to Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19, Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 in G major, Op. 58, and Symphonies no. 1 in C major, Op. 21.
On the closing evening of the 4th Winter Festival, the famous will ring Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, and Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. The piano concerto was created during the tumultuous times of Napoleon's military campaigns and earned the nickname "The Emperor" due to its fiery and belligerent nature. The Fifth Symphony, however, is perhaps the most famous symphonic work of all time. It expresses the feelings of the composer's tragic personal fate and his faith in man's historical mission. He will perform a piano concerto Gorizia pianist Aleksander Gadžijev, who is considered one of the best local pianists of the younger generation.
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