Performers: Hélène Grimaud (piano), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Programme: Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen (Suite); Gershwin – Piano Concerto in F; Sibelius – Symphony No. 5
Streaming platform: Medici.tv
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2026
Local time (Zurich): 01:00 (CEST, March 30)
GMT: 23:00
French pianist Hélène Grimaud joins Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich for a programme that moves between Central European colour and American rhythm, centred on Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F.
Written in 1925, the concerto remains one of Gershwin’s most distinctive orchestral works, blending jazz idioms with symphonic form. Its rhythmic drive and lyrical slow movement offer a wide expressive range, from percussive brilliance to introspective calm—terrain that Grimaud has explored throughout her career.
The programme opens with the suite from Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, distilling the opera’s vivid orchestral writing into a sequence of sharply characterised scenes. In the second half, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 brings a different sense of scale, unfolding from its opening horn calls to the expansive and architecturally striking final movement.
Together, the programme draws a line between contrasting musical worlds, from Janáček’s narrative imagination to Gershwin’s transatlantic language and Sibelius’s symphonic breadth.
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