Schubert

Extracts from Rosamunde

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No.1

Strauss

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)

Vasily Petrenko

conductor

Boris Giltburg

piano

Richard Strauss boasted that he could depict even a knife and fork in music – so when he came to paint a musical self-portrait, he wasn’t exactly modest! From earsplitting battles and roof-raising fanfares to shamelessly steamy love-scenes, everything about Ein Heldenleben is supersized. Vasily Petrenko conducts one of the real highlights of our season, with the sensational Boris Giltburg performing one of Beethoven’s earliest piano concertos.