City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Kazuki Yamada
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Bruce Liu
Dates
sat 07 mar 2026 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 95
duration
1h 40' interval
ca. 20:40
Extra info
introduction Klaas Coulembier / 19:15 / Music Studio
There seems something attractively straightforward about Bruce Liu's approach; an elegance and lightness of touch. The Guardian
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which flourished under the baton of van Sir Simon Rattle, has found a new, dynamic chief conductor in Kazuki Yamada. Yamada proves that he does not shy away from grand works with this Russian programme, in which Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mussorgsky’s beloved Pictures at an Exhibition complement one another. The soloist in Tchaikovsky’s iconic concerto is the equally cherished Bruce Liu. This Canadian pianist with Chinese roots took the world by storm in 2021 when he convincingly won the International Chopin Piano Competition. Since then, he has become a mainstay on the major concert stages. At his debut in London’s Wigmore Hall in 2024, reviewers described how Liu’s playing ‘blew the roof off’ and he was declared a ‘genius’. This bodes well for Tchaikovsky’s popular but notoriously challenging Piano Concerto.
Works
Ouverture 'Portsmouth Point'
Concerto voor piano en orkest nr 1 in bes, opus 23
Schilderijententoonstelling
Credits
musical performance
musical direction
piano
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