Beethoven’s Eroica

Saturday, May 11 at 8pm
Sunday, May 12 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center

Rafael Payare leads this brilliant Romantic-meets-Modern program that features Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s dazzling style and theatricality to Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto.

Artists and repertoire

Rafael Payare, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
Ravel: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, “Eroica”

Rafael Payare leads this brilliant Romantic-meets-Modern program that opens with Sofia Gubaidulina’s dynamic Fairytale Poem. Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings his dazzling style and theatricality to 20th-century composer Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto. The second half features Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 3—an ode to heroism, revolution and freedom. The “Eroica” is considered by many to be the greatest of not just Beethoven’s symphonies, but the greatest symphony of all time.