CANCELLED: Danish National Symphony Orchestra / Helmchen / Luisi

He is one of the most sensitive Mozart interpreters of our time – probably because Martin Helmchen is always aware of the deceptive lightness inherent in every Mozart composition.  He describes as a »lifelong Herculen task« the search for the right tone, for the »right balance of mood« that are required in the G major Piano Concerto in particular. Concert programmers are fond of juxtaposing Mozart, the inventor of brilliant melodies, with Anton Bruckner, the painter of soundscapes, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Fabio Luisi are no exception. Bruckner’s monumental Fourth Symphony, to which he gave the nickname »Romantic«, is almost unsurpassed in momentum and complexity: the composer made the Romantic search for »genius« into a theme in its own right in his constantly evolving symphonies.