Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1*
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor
Hong Xu piano



Fate. It has hung dagger-like over the art of music since Beethoven seized it by the throat. In 1877, Tchaikovsky felt its weighty hand on his shoulder. His artistic response was a Symphony unlike anything he’d created before: ‘This is fate’, he revealed to his confidante Nadezhda von Meck, explaining the opening notes of his heart-onsleeve Fourth Symphony. But by the Symphony’s final chapter, Tchaikovsky’s darkness had turned to light. ‘Rejoice in other’s rejoicing’ he urged Nadezhda, and the Symphony veered towards the sort of unstoppable, ebullient confidence and joy that Beethoven captured so gloriously in his First Piano Concerto.

*Supported by Dunard Fund

FREE Pre-concert performance | 6.00pm-6.45pm | Royal Festival Hall
Thomas Blunt conducts the Foyle Future Firsts in UK premieres by David Bruce and Luke Bedford

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Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 - I. Allegro con brio
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 - III. Rondo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - I. Andante sostenuto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - III. Scherzo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - IV. Finale - Allegro con fuoco

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