Beethoven’s Fourths

Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 8:00p

Menlo Atherton Center for Performing Arts Atherton, CA

Thur, Nov 8, 2012, 8:00 pm
The Center for Performing Arts, Atherton

Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Emanuel Ax, fortepiano

Get ready for a once in a lifetime experience. Hear one of the world’s great pianists in an intimate setting performing one of the central works of the repertoire, for the first time with period instruments. Emanuel Ax makes his Philharmonia Baroque debut with Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto on the fortepiano.

Beethoven composed his fourth symphony and fourth piano concerto… Show more for performance at the same concert in March 1807. Music Director Nicholas McGegan conducts, revealing the revolutionary genius of Beethoven middle-period. Hear them performed as they must have sounded that very evening in Vienna.

Program
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
BEETHOVEN 12 Contredanses for Orchestra, WoO 14
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60

Learn More
Pre-concert talk at 7:15 PM*
(*6:45 PM on Sunday, November 11)

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Emanuel Ax discusses Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4:

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Performers at this Event

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Classical, Choral / Vocalist, Opera

Emanuel Ax
One of the 20th century's most highly regarded pianists. Emanuel Ax has performed all over the United States and in Europe. His repertoire includes chamber music literature such as Bela Bartok, Schoenberg and Mozart....

New Age, Classical, Actors

Location & Nearby Info

Menlo Atherton Center for Performing Arts
555 Middlefield Rd.
Atherton, CA 94025-3493

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