Paris, France – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France – Janáček, Dvořák, Brahms

PERFORMERS
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Lukáš Vondráček, piano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

PROGRAMME
Leoš Janáček: Jealousy
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1

PROGRAMME NOTE
Brahms and Dvořák held each other in high esteem and corresponded frequently, the former providing crucial support to the latter without ever attempting to influence his musical language. Here, in Dvořák’s Piano Concerto, written at the dawn of his creative career, we rediscover a work imbued with the spirit of Haydn or Chopin, Slavic in temperament but devoid of heavy-handed folklore. At the same time, Brahms was more than finding his footing: after more than fifteen years of hesitation, he finally confronted Beethoven’s legacy in his First Symphony , a work of late and deliberate conquest. This marks the long-awaited return of Jakub Hrůša to the helm of the Philharmonic, celebrating 20 years of collaboration with the man who was Myung-whun Chung’s assistant conductor in… 2006!