Name: Himmelsblick
Start: 2024-05-24T19:00:00
Location: Alte Oper

John Storgårds

Martin Helmchen

hr-Sinfonieorchester

A Bruckner biography published over 100 years ago speaks of his "feeling for nature", of his "joy in knightly splendor and rustic coarseness" - and of his "longing for heaven": Bruckner's music opens the view to the very top, to places where one can otherwise only reach with Mozart. The Finn John Storgårds, who only started his conducting career when he was just over 30 years old, is convinced: "Bruckner's music helps you to develop, first as a musician and then as a conductor." The "Sixth", which is not heard very often, is one of his favorite symphonies. Martin Helmchen, currently one of the few German pianists who play a leading role up there, where the air is thin, has certainly arrived in the piano Olympus. He had already proven that he understands Mozart with his first CD recording in 2007: "The young man can sing on the piano," marveled the reviewer from the specialist magazine Rondo – "he can do it really beautifully."