Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played his last piano concerto himself at the piano at the premiere in 1791 - in the last symphony concert of this season, we experience General Music Director Justin Brown as pianist and conductor. The B flat major Piano Concertois linked to Bruckner's compositions by the fact that Mozart introduces a third theme in the first movement, which seemed unusual at the time. But the chromatic daring also pointed to the future. The extraordinary quality of the virtuoso concerto is based on the symphonic development, which already points to Beethoven. The 60-year-old Anton Bruckner was very proud when his Seventh Symphony brought him the first undisputed success of his career. He was a maverick who went his own way unwaveringly and developed an incomparable musical language as a result. In the slow movement of his Seventh, he commemorates the death of Richard Wagner, whom he admired. Wagner's harmonic innovations gave Bruckner the opportunity to create an unprecedented musical architecture in which his pictorial music can resonate in all its grandeur - truly a grandiose climax after a decade of outstanding concertos!
