2nd Academy Concert: Kirill Petrenko

Man and his destiny – that is the theme underlying the sounds of the 2nd Academy Concert 2025–26. Even the opening chords make it clear that Johannes Brahms describes his most personal fears and hopes in his first piano concerto. With this mammoth work in D minor, he shattered all the boundaries that the audience, sworn to classical balance, could have imagined at the premiere in 1859. Pianist Daniil Trifonov is the ideal interpreter like no othe...