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Zlata Chochieva’s Chopin

Zlata Chochieva joins the BBC SSO to perform Chopin’s first Piano Concerto, alongside music by Schumann and Sibelius.

A diagnosis of acute depression, insomnia, exhaustion, auditory disturbances, bodily tremors and wide-ranging phobias led Schumann’s doctor to prescribe a complete abandonment of music.
However Schumann’s mind appears to have subsequently risen from its nadir in January of 1846 when he began to consider his Symphony in C major. Rather than give-up, a flurry of composition projects -intricate counterpoints, fugues, tuneful part-songs on poems by Robert Burns- must all have fed his artistic curiosity: resulting in the uplifting 2nd Symphony.
Like Schumann’s symphonies, Chopin’s Piano Concertos were written in the wrong order. His first, written second, by a Chopin set to flee the politically turbulent Warsaw. Its robust melodicism will this evening be brought to life by the brilliant young soloist, Zlata Chochieva.
And the concert opens with a short, myth-haunted piece by Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela.

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Jamie MacDougall

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Chopin: Piano Concerto no 1

8.20 Interval

8.40 Part 2

Schumann: Symphony no 2

Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Photo credit: Nefeli Mousoura

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Mon 10 Feb 2020 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No.1

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude Op.10 No.5

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Musical Offering: ricercar a 3

    Performer: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 No.6

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.2

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl‐Heinz Steffens.

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in G minor, Op.56`2

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite (Ballet)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

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  • Mon 10 Feb 2020 19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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