For Tchaikovsky, Mozart was “the Christ of music” – a vision of beauty and purity that he could never hope to match. And Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.12 certainly makes a wondrously intimate contrast to the epic struggle and heady passions of Tchaikovsky’s deliriously romantic Fifth Symphony, to say nothing of Rachmaninov’s atmospheric study in musical monochrome, The Isle of the Dead. But there are some startling surprises beneath Mozart’s lace cravat; and if anyone can draw them out, it’s pianist extraordinaire CĂ©dric Tiberghien, just as ±«Óătv SSO Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher will bring a composer’s insight to Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky’s two landmarks of Russian romanticism.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Pianist CĂ©dric Tiberghien in conversation.
The main concert will be recorded for future broadcast on ±«Óătv Radio 3.