Pianist Sir András Schiff has unfortunately had to cancel this concert for health reasons. We are very grateful that Seong-Jin Cho has agreed to take over the performance.

On tour: Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven

Myung-whun Chung conducts Brahms and Weber in Lucerne and Italy

on tour

Seong-Jin Cho joins the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. In addition, Myung-whun Chung conducts Brahms’ Fourth Symphony and Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz.

In his intensely melancholic Fourth Symphony, Brahms’s mastery as a composer reaches unprecedented heights.

Concert programme

  • Carl Maria Weber

    ‘Der Freischütz’ Overture

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 4 

  • -- interval --

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4

Performers

About this concert

The 2024 summer tour brings the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Maestro Myung-whun Chung to the Lucerne Festival and two venues in Italy.  

The South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, considered by many to be Beethoven’s finest. Yet it would take an astounding twenty-five years before audiences heard a decent performance of the work and realised what a masterpiece it actually is. 

Maestro Myung-whun Chung will then be conducting the crowning glory of Brahms’ symphonic œuvre, the Symphony No. 4, in which the composer pays homage to his predecessors Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. In his intensely melancholic Fourth Symphony, Brahms’s mastery as a composer reaches unprecedented heights. 

Dates and tickets

About this concert

The 2024 summer tour brings the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Maestro Myung-whun Chung to the Lucerne Festival and two venues in Italy.  

The South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, considered by many to be Beethoven’s finest. Yet it would take an astounding twenty-five years before audiences heard a decent performance of the work and realised what a masterpiece it actually is. 

Maestro Myung-whun Chung will then be conducting the crowning glory of Brahms’ symphonic œuvre, the Symphony No. 4, in which the composer pays homage to his predecessors Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. In his intensely melancholic Fourth Symphony, Brahms’s mastery as a composer reaches unprecedented heights. 

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