Rudolf Buchbinder and the Wiener Musikverein present an exclusive focus on Schubert in the 24/25 season.
21.09.2024 Lieder recital with Jonas Kaufmann | F. Schubert: “Die schöne Müllerin”
07.11.2024 Buchbinder - Hahn - Capuçon | F. Schubert: Piano trios D 898 & D 929
30.01.2025 Buchbinder - Danailova - Landerer - Varga - Bladerer | F. Schubert: Quintet “The Trout” D 667 and others
26.02.2025 Piano recital Buchbinder | F. Schubert: Four Impromptus D 935 & Sonata D 960
Read MoreFollowing his brilliant cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven's complete piano sonatas at the Seoul Arts Center in June-July 2023, Rudolf Buchbinder returns to Korea in June 2024. This time, he is bringing with him the five piano concertos by Beethoven - the composer with whose work Buchbinder is so closely associated. With the cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven's five piano concertos at the Seoul Arts Center, Rudolf Buchbinder follows on from his celebrated sonata cycle. Buchbinder leads the Festival Strings Lucerne from the piano - the piano concertos being performed in the style of great chamber music.
Read More"It is a pleasure and an honour for me to open the Spring Festival in Tokyo. Congratulations on the 20th anniversary," said Rudolf Buchbinder at the beginning of March 2024. Between 15 and 22 March, he performs Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas on seven nights at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. This is the first Beethoven sonata cycle of Buchbinder for his Japanese audience, and also the first as part of the renowned Spring Festival in Tokyo.
The last two programs featuring the sonatas op. 22, 49/2, 13, 79 & 53 on 21 March and op. 109. 110 & 111 on 22 March are broadcasted live from Tokyo on Stage+ (7:00 pm JST/10:00 pm UST).
Read MoreMünchenMusik presents a special Buchbinder cycle with Ludwig van Beethoven's five piano concertos in February and April 2024.
Tue, February 6, 2024 | 8:00 pm, Isarphilharmonie
Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala/Myung-whun Chung/Rudolf Buchbinder
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major op. 58
Fri, February 16, 2024 | 8:00 pm, Isarphilharmonie
Münchner Philharmoniker/Marie Jacquot/Rudolf Buchbinder
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37
Sun, February 25, 2024 | 8:00 pm, Isarphilharmonie
Luxembourg Philharmonic
Rudolf Buchbinder, conductor and piano
Haydn Piano Concerto in D major Hob. XVIII:11
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major op. 19
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15
Sat, April 13, 2024 | 7:00 pm, Isarphilharmonie
Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali/Rudolf Buchbinder
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major op. 73
At the start of the new year, Buchbinder appears as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Jaap van Zweden in four concerts from January 4 to 7, 2024. His highly anticipated return to the NY Phil sees Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 on the program.
Read MoreAt the beginning of November, Buchbinder returned to China for concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Beethoven’s five piano concertos. He led the Staatskapelle Dresden from the piano in two acclaimed concerts presenting the cycle of all five Beethoven piano concertos in two evening programs at Shenzhen Grand Theatre and Xi'an Concert Hall, respectively.
Shortly after his return from China, Buchbinder ca,e to Dresden for three concerts with Staatskapelle Dresden and Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto under the baton of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at Semperoper Dresden.
Buchbinder is the soloist in Mozart’s piano concerto K. 488 for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Opening Week under the direction of principal conductor Andris Nelsons. As part of the BSO Gala, Buchbinder will also join forces with jazz pianist Aaron Diehl: "Tonk" by Duke Ellington for piano four-hands will be heard in a unique setting!
Buchbinder made his debut with the BSO in 1986 and has had a close relationship with the orchestra ever since. He shares a particularly close musical friendship with Andris Nelsons, which is reflected in numerous joint performances by the two.
10/05, 7:30pm / 10/06, 1:30pm // 10/07, 6:00pm Opening Night at Symphony
Symphony Hall, Boston
The new season takes Buchbinder right back to Asia. In September 2023, he makes a guest appearance with Beethoven's Piano Concertos #4 and #5 with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden.
Read MoreBuchbinder is world-famous for his towering Beethoven interpretations. Between June 28 and July 9, 2023, he will perform the 32 piano sonatas of the composer, who occupies a central position in Buchbinder's artistic output, for his Korean fans at the Arts Center in Seoul. Returning to Korea with this widely acclaimed Beethoven cycle means a great deal to him personally: „When I think of the Korean audience, it warms my heart: The shared enthusiasm, the deep knowledge of the great masterpieces, the curiosity and openness, the seriousness and joy with which classical music is experienced are intensely felt by me as a performer, and they are a source of inspiration.“
BUCHBINDER:BEETHOVEN - The Complete Piano Sonatas // Seoul Arts Center, Korea
28/30 June; 01/06/07/08/09 July 2023
A five-week tour takes Rudolf Buchbinder to Taiwan and China from late April to late May 2023. There he will present no fewer than 19 concerts, all dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas. Buchbinder's Beethoven cycle at the NCPA is the first of its kind: never before in the history of this iconic hall has a single pianist performed Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas in a cycle there.
BUCHBINDER:BEETHOVEN - The Complete Piano Sonatas // Taipei, National Concert Hall (26 April - 6 May 2023) // Beijing, NCPA (9-17 May 2023) // further recitals in Guangzhou, Nanjing, Xi’an, Changsha and Wuhan, check here.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder is on tour with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In a total of eight concerts in March 2023, they explore the piano concertos of Robert Schumann and Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto together. After three enthusiastically received concerts at the Palace of Arts in Budapest on March 9, 10 and 11, the tour travels to Berlin (Philharmonie, March 13), Luxembourg (Philharmonie, March 18), Munich (Isarphilharmonie, March 19), Lugano (LAC, March 20) and Paris (Philharmonie, March 21).
Read MoreSoirée de Vienne is a declaration of love to Vienna. Rudolf Buchbinder brings together composers who are closely connected with Vienna - like himself. With the selection of pieces, he recreates a good evening party - inspiring, entertaining and always profound. Alongside the Fledermaus Paraphrase by Johann Strauß and the Soirée de Vienne by Schubert-Liszt, there are rarities such as the Kupelwieser Waltz by Franz Schubert or his Military March, set for piano by Otto Tausig. For a long time, Buchbinder presents himself again with works by Frédéric Chopin. The focus is on Franz Schubert's Four Impromptus D899.
"The freedom of the moment, the luxury of intelligent naivety and the curiosity of the moment - all this is what makes music come alive," says Rudolf Buchbinder. The album is a feeling of life poured into sound.
For three concerts with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Rudolf Buchbinder returned to the Tonhalle Zurich on October 26, 27 and 28. The venue and orchestra have been close to Buchbinder for decades and are fixed stars in his concert calendar. Buchbinder has a special artistic bond with Paavo Järvi, based on the immediate music-making style and no-frills aesthetic characteristic of both. In Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 4, this was impressively heard and felt. Christian Wildhagen writes in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that Järvi lets the music speak for itself, as it were, and that its magic arises solely from the coherent realization of the musical text. And further: "In practice, this is much more difficult than it sounds, but in the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, Järvi had an ideal partner for this in the Beethoven concerto."
One senses the 75-year-old's abundant experience from nearly six decades in the spotlight. And finally, Wildhagen puts it in a nutshell: "But this is more than serenity," he continues: "It is the intellectual freedom, the playful sovereignty and the knowledge of the essentials in the music that make a great performer." (NZZ, 28 Oct 2022)
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder is on tour in Korea again! Two recitals on June 4 and 5 at the Seoul Arts Center marked the beginning of his ten-day concert tour to Korea. The two finely tuned programs with works by Schubert, Brahms and Beethoven triggered storms of enthusiasm. It is this enthusiasm that Rudolf Buchbinder values so highly in his Korean audiences, combined with the great seriousness and knowledge with which concertgoers of all ages in Korea follow the music. Concerts in Korea are an integral part of Rudolf Buchbinder's annual touring calendar, and meeting his Korean fans is always a special joy for him.
Read MoreFocus on Richard Strauss: with the Burlesque for piano and orchestra Rudolf Buchbinder gives a guest performance with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the baton of Andris Nelsons on May 5 and 6, 2022 and is soloist of the orchestra's touring concerts in London, Vienna, Hamburg and Paris. The Burlesque is particularly close to Rudolf Buchbinder's heart and has accompanied him since his youth. Strauss had intended the virtuoso piece for his mentor Hans von Bülow, who famously said, "A different hand position every bar - do you think I'd sit down for four weeks to study such a barbed piece?"
May 05, 8:00 p.m. | Leipzig, Gewandhaus
May 06, 8:00 p.m. | Leipzig, Gewandhaus
May 10, 7:30 p.m. | London, Barbican Centre
May 25, 7:30 p.m. | Vienna, Musikverein
May 28, 20:00 | Elbphilharmonie
May 30, 20:30 | Paris, Philharmonie
Alongside the Vienna Philharmonic, Rudolf Buchbinder celebrates his 75th birthday with two festive concerts in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on 5 and 6 February 2022. Buchbinder and the Vienna Philharmonic, of which he is an honorary member, will present Ludwig van Beethoven's First and Third Piano Concertos as well as Mozart's Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn in E-flat Major K. 452.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder continues his internationally acclaimed concept program centered on Ludwig van Beethoven's epochal Diabelli Variations op. 120 from 1823. Eleven new Diabelli Variations by Lera Auerbach, Brett Dean, Toshio Hosokawa, Christian Jost, Brad Lubman, Philippe Manoury, Max Richter, Rodion Shchedrin, Johannes Maria Staud, Tan Dun and Jörg Widmann reflect the work into the 21st century. The New Diabelli Variations, commissioned on the initiative of Rudolf Buchbinder by eleven concert halls and festivals around the world and with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for the Beethoven Year 2020, are now receiving their Spanish premiere in Madrid and their Italian premiere in Milan.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder returns to Korea in October 2021 with four solo recitals. The focus will be on Ludwig van Beethoven as well as the Korean premiere of the New Diabelli Variations (2020). After an extensive recital tour in 2019, his return to Korea had to be postponed for a year due to the pandemic. Now he looks forward to meeting his enthusiastic Korean audiences again with great anticipation.
19 October Seoul Arts Center | Beethoven Sonatas op. 27/2, 49/2, 13, 14/2, 53
20 October Seoul Arts Center | The Diabelli Project
21 October Daejeon Arts Center | Beethoven Sonatas op. 27/2, 49/2, 13, 14/2, 53
24 October Daegu Concert House | The Diabelli Project
For many years, Rudolf Buchbinder's collaboration with the Staatskapelle Dresden has been a matter close to his heart. In the 2010/11 season, at the orchestra's invitation, he became the first “Capell-Virtuos” in the then 462-year history of the Staatskapelle. It was the beginning of a particularly close musical friendship. The intensive music-making with principal conductor Christian Thielemann on the podium and Buchbinder as soloist - most recently documented with the recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto (DGG) - and countless concerts in Germany and abroad with Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist and conductor in personal union are among the highlights of the concert life.
Now Rudolf Buchbinder is perfroming with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden on two consecutive nights at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. On the programme: Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 4 on September 28 and Nos. 1 and 5 on September 29.
September 3rd, 2021
Rudolf Buchbinder presents all of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas and piano concertos on Deutsche Grammophon. Both albums are live recordings of his legendary Beethoven cycles of the 32 piano sonatas at the Salzburg Festival and the five piano concertos at the Vienna Musikverein, respectively, with five world-class conductors and orchestras.
"Beethoven has played a central role in my life since childhood, for almost 70 years," he says. "The fact that today I still search and find in his scores, that he challenges, touches, strengthens and teaches me so much every day, amazes and delights me."
Click here for the albums.
Read MoreThe countdown is on for two benchmark CD releases on September 3, 2021. BUCHBINDER:BEETHOVEN - Deutsche Grammophon dedicates a Beethoven edition to the great pianist, presenting the complete piano sonatas live from the Salzburg Festival as well as the five piano concertos. This is a sonic document to a truly remarkable project. For the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna Musikverein gave a single pianist, Rudolf Buchbinder, the honor of performing all five Beethoven piano concertos in a specially created cycle throughout the season 2019/20. Buchbinder's partners for this unique setting were the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden under their principal conductors Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev and Christian Thielemann.
"These live recordings are the highlights of my life with Beethoven," says Rudolf Buchbinder.
The Grafenegg Festival, whose artistic director has been Rudolf Buchbinder since the festival's founding in 2007, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. It was festively opened on August 13. On August 14, Rudolf Buchbinder performs there with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 1. This performance is followed by a concert in Budapest on August 15th at the Palace of Arts - Béla Bartók Concert Hall, again with Maggio Musicale and Brahms 1.
Read MoreOn August 8, 2021, Rudolf Buchbinder will present his live recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas from the Salzburg Festival as part of an artist talk at the Salzburg Festival. In 2014, Buchbinder was honored to perform Beethoven's complete piano sonatas at the Salzburg Festival - as the first pianist in the Festival's history to do so in a single Festival summer. Now this unique audio document is being released as a 9-CD box set by Deutsche Grammophon.
Prior to the official CD release on September 3, 2021, Buchbinder will speak with Dr. Clemens Trautmann, President of Deutsche Grammophon, at the Villa Vicina in Salzburg about his Beethoven interpretation, the Salzburg Beethoven cycle and the making of the live recording. At this exclusive event, Buchbinder will also let Beethoven have his say and perform a sonata of his.
On 8 and 9 July, Rudolf Buchbinder returns to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra with Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor conducted by Manfred Honeck. The concert will be broadcast live on NDR Kultur on July 8 at 9 p.m. and, to the great delight of the artists, will take place in front of an audience at the Elbphilharmonie.
Read MoreBerlin, October 9th, 2020
Luminary pianist Rudolf Buchbinder receives the 2020 OPUS Klassik Lifetime Achievement Award. Particularly his renditions of Ludwig van Beethoven's works are considered to be exemplary. He has performed the 32 piano sonatas 60 times in cycles all over the world and developed the story of their interpretation over decades. He is a sought-after partner of the great conductors and orchestras of our time performing around the world. In his work, he merges tradition and innovation, faithfulness and freedom, authenticity and open-mindedness
„My life is a life for the music. The OPUS Klassik is an important recognition of my lifelong work with and for the music. It means a lot to me to receive the OPUS Klassik Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, the jubilee year of Beethoven. I take the challenge to continue along the path, always searching, never arriving, in virtue of my maxime 'Those who believe to be something, have stopped to become something‘“, says Rudolf Buchbinder.
Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations have become the leitmotif of Buchbinder’s life. As a contribution to Beethoven’s 250th anniversary he initiated “The Diabelli project” which bridges the gap of time and includes a cycle of eleven New Diabelli Variations by eleven leading contemporary composers of different generations and backgrounds. The New Diabelli Variations were commissioned by eleven concert promoters worldwide and with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. “The fact that Buchbinder engaged composers as diverse as Lera Auerbach, Jörg Widmann and Max Richter speaks for his curiosity and his inspirational power” said jury speaker Dr. Kerstin Schüssler-Bach about the laureate. „Rudolf Buchbinder embodies a type of artist that has become rare: unpretentious, meticulous, with never-ending creative energy and beyond routine.“
The Award ceremony takes place on October 18th at Konzerthaus Berlin. German TV station ZDF is broadcasting the show on October 18th from 10:15 p.m.
Read MoreThis new album, released on Deutsche Grammophon, captures a magic moment from Berlin’s Philharmonie: Rudolf Buchbinder and the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Christian Thielemann perform Beethoven’s first piano concerto. It is a document of Buchbinder’s utterly inspring encounter with one of the world’s greatest orchestras and of his long-standing musical friendship with Christian Thielemann. And it is another proof of Buchbinder’s superb, profound and always lively reading of Beethoven who has been in the centre of his music making throughout his life.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder began his distinguished recording career nearly 50 years ago with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations in a “dramatically charged and spiritually uplifting interpretation” (music critic Jed Distler). Now he returns to this monumental work after decades of performing all of Beethoven’s piano music. Buchbinder was also the first to record the variations that Diabelli commissioned from Schubert, Liszt, Hummel, Czerny and other important figures of his day.
As a 21st-century parallel to Diabelli’s original conception, Buchbinder devised his own special homage, for which he invited eleven composers of different generations and manifold cultural backgrounds each to write a new Diabelli-Variation, among them Brett Dean, Toshio Hosokawa, Christian Jost, Jörg Widmann, Rodion Shchedrin, Tan Dun and Max Richter. For Buchbinder, these new pieces demonstrate beyond question that Beethoven is the whole world’s cultural heritage, that his music is current and alive and as up to date now as then.
The album The Diabelli Project, including the world première recording of the New Diabelli Variations, is now available. It marks the beginning of Rudolf Buchbinder's exclusive partnership with Deutsche Grammophon.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder premiers The Diabelli Project at Musikverein Vienna on March 3rd, 2020. This very personal, bold and innovative homage to Beethoven puts Beethoven’s groundbreaking op. 120, the 33 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, in the center of the program – reflected in Beethoven’s as well as our time. The program comprises the world premiere of eleven New Diabelli Variations, composed for Rudolf Buchbinder by Lera Auerbach, Brett Dean, Toshio Hosokawa, Christian Jost, Brad Lubman, Philippe Manoury, Max Richter, Rodion Shchedrin, Johannes Maria Staud, Tan Dun and Jörg Widmann.
The New Diabelli Variations are commissioned by the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon, National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Philharmonie de Paris, Stars of the White Nights Festival St. Petersburg, Foundation Piano-Festival Ruhr and Tonhalle Society Zurich, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Read MoreOn 15/16 and 17 February Rudolf Buchbinder perfoms the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin together with Nikolaj Znaider-Szeps at the Wiener Musikverein.
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Rudolf Buchbinder continued his cycle of the five Beethoven Piano Concertos on 6/7/8 and 9 December, 2019 with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti at the Wiener Musikverein.
„They literally are of one heart and one soul. When star pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, the exceptional conductor Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra make music together, one can expect great moments“, Peter Jarolin writes in the Kurier. „As in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 [...]. How unendingly subtle, unendingly gentle, unendingly profound and undendingly beautiful Buchbinder savoured this piece at the piano, most virtuosic in all its facets and nuances, deserves admiration.“
From: „When real virtuosi make musik together“, Kurier, 9 December 2019 / photo credit: Terry Linke
In the sold-out KKL Luzern Rudolf Buchbinder offered Beethoven's five piano concertos on two evenings, together with the Festival Strings Lucerne whom he directed from the piano - a celebrated opening to the last edition of Piano Festival | LUCERNE Festival with standing ovation.
„His dominance as a soloist is based on the experience of decades of Beethoven interpretation“, the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung lately wrote, referring to Buchbinder’s performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Valery Gergiev and the Munich Philharmonic. „This might be one of the reasons why Buchbinder seems to be the embodiment of the anti-virtuoso“, the critic continues. „When he leads through the conflictual opening movement, this has little to do with soloistic self-presentation. The soloist becomes a narrator, an interpreter. [...] With this open, delicately singing sound, Buchbinder gets to the heart of the Largo movement. Embedded into the smooth sound of the Philharmonics, he conveys the peculiar atmosphere of this movement between serene cheerfulness and sweet melancholy. Without giving up this refinement, Buchbinder shows grim wit, for example in the quirky syncopes and the suddenly thunderous bass.“
The five piano concertos are in the focus of the Buchbinder-Beethoven cycle, hosted by the Wiener Musikerverein on the occasion of the Beethoven anniversary during the 2019-20 season. Buchbinder has the pleasure to work with five world-class orchestras and conductors for this unique project: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Nelsons, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Jansons, Münchner Philharmoniker/Gergiev, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Thielemann as well as Wiener Philharmoniker/Muti.
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The crowning highlight of Rudolf Buchbinder's tour with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks will take place on November 9, 2019 in New York. Under the direction of Mariss Jansons, he will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major KV 488 at Carnegie Hall. Further concerts of the two-week tour took place in Munich, at Vienna Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as well as the Philharmonie de Paris and Philharmonie de Luxembourg.
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On November 6&10, Rudolf is back at Symphony Center upon invitation of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He dedicates his two recitals to Beethoven‘s Sonatas op. 2 no. 1, 2, 3; op. 57 „Appassionata“; op. 10 no. 1, 2, 3 und op. 31 no. 3. His concerts are part of the CSO’s Beethoven250 celebrations
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder and Mariss Jansons enjoy a particularly close musical friendship. After two concerts in Munich with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, where Rudolf Buchbinder was Artist in Residence in the 2016/17 season, they’ll embark on a tour to Vienna @Musikverein (27/28 October), Hamburg @Elbphilharmonie (29 October), Paris @Philharmonie (31 October), Luxembourg @Philharmonie (4 November) and New York @Carnegie Hall (9 November). On the program: Mozart Piano concerto in A major K 488 and Beethoven Piano concerto no. 2 op. 19.
Read MoreOn Sunday, 20 October, Rudolf Buchbinder returns to Musikverein Wien. Performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, together with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Gewandhaus-Kapellmeister Andris Nelsons, he will open his cycle of the five Beethoven concertos which he will perform at the Musikverein during the 2019/20 season alsongside five international top orchestras and conductors.
On 13 October, Buchbinder was joining the Gewandhausorchester and Andris Nelsons for a concert at the Gewandhaus Leipzig. The daily Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote: „Wide awake the musicians begin. And when Rudolf Buchbinder joins them, […], all seemingly simple scales and arpeggios seem to transform into Apollonian rays of light. Brilliance is anything but the result of unbridled joy of playing, one hears with amazement in Buchbinder’s crystal clear piano sound, but also to achieve with objective restraint.“ The Leipziger Volkszeitung continues, Buchbinder was „the top dog in Beethoven matters, […], that type of musician who confidently declares the core repertoire to his territory, hardly tolerates any competitors and always keeps the final word.“
The Buchbinder-Beethoven cycle will be continued at the Musikverein on 28 October with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Mariss Jansons.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe are enjoying a long-standing artistic relationship. Buchbinder’s concerts with Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe will remain unforgettable. Historical radio recordings of these inspiring encounters testify the freshness and joy of playing which are so typical for Rudolf Buchbinder’s music-making still today.
Rudolf Buchbinder is looking forward to the reunion with the COE at the Musikfest Bremen on 30 August as well as at the Grafenegg Festival on 1 September. He will play and conduct Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No. 1 and 5.
Read MoreIn the context of a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Andris Nelsons on 9 April 2019, Rudolf Buchbinder signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany. The thrilling start is an innovative project around Ludwig van Beethoven's epochal Diabelli Variations Op. 120. After recordings in 1973 and 1976, Buchbinder dedicates himself, 43 years later, to a new recording of Beethoven's final major piano work. The world première recording of a series of new Diabelli Variations, composed by eleven leading composers of our time to mark Beethoven's 250th birthday, will also be released. Dr Clemens Trautmann, President of Deutsche Grammophon, is looking forward to the future collaboration with Buchbinder and especially to the adventure of the new Diabelli Variations. “Rudolf Buchbinder knows Beethoven's work very intimately and, perhaps for this very reason, discovers new worlds in these works like no other. His Diabelli project will be a unique contribution to the Beethoven Year. It bridges the gap between Beethoven and his contemporaries and again to us in the present time.”
Read MoreBased on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations Op. 120, Rudolf Buchbinder has initiated a new cycle of variations on the waltz by Anton Diabelli, which inspired Beethoven to create his epochal masterpiece. With Lera Auerbach (*1973), Brett Dean (*1961), Toshio Hosokawa (*1955), Brad Lubman (*1962), Philippe Manoury (*1952), Krzysztof Penderecki (*1933), Max Richter (*1966), Rodion Shchedrin (*1932), Johannes Maria Staud (*1974), Tan Dun (*1957), and Jörg Widmann (*1970), eleven leading contemporary composers of different generations and origins are working with the same original as Beethoven once did. Beethoven in the mirror of the present. Beethoven World Cultural Heritage. The new work is premièred by Rudolf Buchbinder on 3 March 2020 at the Musikverein Vienna and will subsequently be presented by him all over the world.
Read MoreOn the occasion of the composer's 250th birthday, for the first time in its 150-year history the Musikverein Vienna is granting a single pianist, Rudolf Buchbinder, the honour of performing all five piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a specially edited cycle in the 2019/20 concert season. Buchbinder's partners for this exceptional project are the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under their chief conductors Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev and Christian Thielemann.
Read MoreAs part of their complete Brahms symphonic cycle “Brahms and the art of film”, Kent Nagano leads the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Rudolf Buchbinder joins them for the Burlesque by Richard Strauss, one of Buchbinder’s favorite pieces. His reading of this highly virtuosic concerto is captured live on medici.tv. Watch here, Feb 9 at 1:10 AM (CET)
Read MoreShanghai, Kyoto, Tokyo: Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and chief conductor designate Alan Gilbert on tour in Asia.
Read MoreOn November 11 and 13, Rudolf Buchbinder embarks on a very special musical journey: his first Beethoven Sonata Cycle in Moscow. Having built a close relationship with music-loving Moscow audiences over the years, he is looking forward to performing Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas for the Philharmonic Society with great anticipation. The Moscow Beethoven Cycle will span 2019 and culminate in early 2020.
Read MoreThis year’s Grafenegg Festival kicks off on 17 August. Under Rudolf Buchbinder’s leadership as artistic director it has developed into one of Europe’s foremost festivals for orchestral music.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder returns to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for a series of ten concerts between 15 and 25 July in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. On the program: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 1 and Grieg’s Piano Concerto, conducted by Karlheinz Steffens who is replacing Maestro Zubin Mehta at short notice. Rudolf Buchbinder also appears in a chamber concert with the IPO Richter String Quartet in Dvořák’s Piano Quintet no. 2 op. 81.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood for a concert with Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1 conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons on 8 July. He also appears in a chamber concert with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players at Seiji Ozawa Hall, combining Mozart’s beloved Quintet K. 452 for piano and winds with Schumann’s Piano Quintet op 44.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder returns to the “Stars of the White Nights Festival” in St. Petersburg. On June 27, he appears at the Mariinsky Theatre. Together with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra he plays and conducts Beethoven’s Piano concertos nos. 2, 3 and 4.
Read MoreEvery time, a return to Milan’s world-famous La Scala is a very special highlight. Making music there and sharing the unique atomsphere with the audience is both, a great joy and honour. Rudolf Buchbinder will be the soloist in Mozart’s Piano concerto K. 482 with the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. Concerts are taking place on 30 April, 3 and 5 May.
Read MoreWelcome to the new website of Rudolf Buchbinder! With an extensive retrospective, it pays particular attention to his unique 60 years career. What did it sound like when Rudi Buchbinder played Chopin at the age of nine? Listen to his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado in 1972 or with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta in 1983.
Read MoreConcerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden take Rudolf Buchbinder to Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Essen and Mannheim, performing Beethoven’s piano concertos No. 1 Op. 15 and No. 5 Op. 73. Rudolf Buchbinder will lead the orchestra, with whom he has a particularly close artistic friendship, from the keyboard.
Read MoreIn December 2017 and January 2018, Rudolf Buchbinder appears with the Kammerorchester Wien-Berlin. Founded by members of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the ensemble in a way represents the essence of both orchestras. It combines chamber music delicacy with symphonic grandeur. In dialogue with Rudolf Buchbinder who will be conducting from the piano the ensemble performs Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D Major as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 271 "Jeunehomme", ensuring an exhilarating artistic exhange.
Read MoreRudolf Buchbinder returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. On 21, 24 and 25 November, he performs Beethoven’s Piano concerto no. 1 under the baton of Music Director Andris Nelsons.
The concert on Saturday night will be broadcasted live on WCRB Classical Radio Boston.
25 November 2017 |8:00 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 15
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic
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