Beethoven, Chopin, Janácek

Leonore, Ouverture n.º 3 op. 72b, regarded as the best of all four Beethoven wrote for a melhor Leonore – his only opera later renamed Fidelio, or Conjugal Love – was heard for the first time in Vienna in 1803. Chopin’s  Concert n.º 1 for piano and orchestra, composed in 1830, had its first performance in Warsaw with Chopin as soloist, in the same year Chopin gave several farewell concerts before leaving Poland, his much-loved homeland. The concert ends with Sinfonietta, a Janácek late work written in 1926, – two years before his death – and given its markedly military thematic, the composer dedicated it to the Czechoslovak Army.

Conductor | Joana Carneiro

Piano | Simon Trpceski

ORQUESTRA SINFÓNICA PORTUGUESA

Ludwig van Beethoven | Leonore, Ouverture  nº 3 op.72 bI

Frédéric Chopin | Piano Concert no. 1 in E Minor op.11

Leos Janácek | Sinfonietta