Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

Friday, October 30 – Saturday, October 31 at the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee
Start Time
  • 11:15a on Friday, October 30
  • 7:30p on Saturday, October 31
conductor

Kristiina Poska

piano

Orli Shaham

Ülo Krigul

Proteus Pulse

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1

Schumann

Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”

CONCERT DETAILS

In Beethoven’s first piano concerto, we begin to hear the composer step away from imitation and into his own true voice; Orli Shaham performs this daring concerto. Schumann’s “Rhenish” symphony was inspired by a happy vacation along Germany’s Rhine river, and its music glitters with sunlight. Guest conductor Kristiina Poska — “an iron baton in a velvet hand” (Diapason) — opens this program with music from fellow Estonian Ülo Krigul, who notes that his Proteus Pulse “derives its flows and pulsations from an old greek God of Waters."

How you’ll feel: completely in awe; moved as if by water

What to listen for:

  • While Schumann’s “Rhenish” is beautiful from start to finish, its fourth movement was inspired by Germany’s Cologne Cathedral and is especially haunting. See the cathedral here.
  • Krigul says of his Proteus Pulse: “One way or another, water has been a matter of my compositions in recent years. Its connective energy and everchanging still similar states of being, its qualities incorporating both ice and vapour, its endless source of symbolics and physics continues to be an inspiration.”

 

The MSO Steinway piano was made possible through a generous gift from Michael & Jeanne Schmitz

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Start Time
  • 11:15a on Friday, October 30
  • 7:30p on Saturday, October 31
conductor

Kristiina Poska

piano

Orli Shaham

Ülo Krigul

Proteus Pulse

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1

Schumann

Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”