Labadie Conducts Beethoven

Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6 at the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee
Start Time
  • 11:15a on Friday, March 5
  • 7:30p on Saturday, March 6
conductor

Bernard Labadie

piano

Benedetto Lupo

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 3

Mozart

Chaconne from Idomeneo

Beethoven

Symphony No. 1

CONCERT DETAILS

The MSO welcomes the return of guest conductor Bernard Labadie. Best known as an expert in Baroque and Classical repertoire, Labadie is an ideal conductor for Beethoven’s first symphony, which is awash in inspiration from Mozart and Haydn. Benedetto Lupo, a pianist recognized for blending "meticulous technique with romantic sensitivity” (Birmingham News), performs Beethoven’s third piano concerto, which similarly flirts with Mozart’s ideas while still injecting Beethoven’s own dramatic voice along the way.

How you’ll feel: thrilled for the return of Labadie; fascinated to hear the impact of Beethoven’s influences on his early music

What to listen for:

  • A critic writing in 1806 declared that Beethoven’s first symphony is "a masterpiece that does equal honor to [Beethoven's] inventiveness and his musical knowledge. Being just as beautiful and distinguished in its design as its execution, there prevails in it such a clear and lucid order, such a flow of the most pleasant melodies, and such a rich, but at the same time never wearisome, instrumentation that this symphony can justly be placed next to Mozart's and Haydn's." Read more about Beethoven's First.

 

 

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, March 5
  • 7:30p on Saturday, March 6
conductor

Bernard Labadie

piano

Benedetto Lupo

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 3

Mozart

Chaconne from Idomeneo

Beethoven

Symphony No. 1