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Sir András Schiff plays Beethoven Piano Concertos 2 & 1

OAE Principal Guest Artist Sir András Schiff joins us for a three-night series of Beethoven's complete Piano Concertos, beginning with No. 2 & 1.
London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall £10 - £80 Book now

MUSIC & GUEST ARTIST

 

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
HAYDN Symphony No. 93
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1

Sir András Schiff fortepiano/director

PRE-CONCERT TALK

with Professor Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford) at 6.30pm in the foyer at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Free to ticket holders.

ON TOUR

Our Beethoven Piano Concerto project with Sir András Schiff will be on tour in May and June to Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (24 May); Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (28 May); Essen Philharmonie (29 May); Stefaniensaal, Graz (30 – 31 May); Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (1 June); Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris (3 June); and Auditorium Lyon (5 June).

Please see venue websites for programme details.

After the success of our Brahms Piano Concerto series with Sir András Schiff in 2019, we are delighted to welcome back our Principal Guest Artist for a three-night series of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos.


‘The Wilderness Pleases’ is inspired by one of the many influential pieces of work to come out of the Enlightenment era; Shaftesbury’s ‘The Moralists.’

In the book, the main character Theocles describes the terror of encountering a group of crocodiles in an Egyptian desert. After escaping the monsters, he is overcome with a desire to admire them as wondrous creatures of the natural world. He says,

‘let us fly to the vast deserts of these parts […] ghastly and hideous as they appear they want not their peculiar beauties. Wilderness pleases.’