Gala from Berlin 2024
The star pianist Daniil Trifonov performs Johannes Brahms' monumentally virtuoso Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko. This will be followed by Richard Wagner’s prelude to act one from “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” and two splendidly orchestrated dance works by Richard Strauss that are conceivably contradictory in expression: the charming, second waltz sequence from “Der Rosenkavalier” and Salome's Dance with its exhibitionistic, almost brutal sensuality.
Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83; Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act 1; Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Waltz Sequence No. 2; Strauss: Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the seven veils