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Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major, Op. 83

Lukáš Vondráček – piano
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Daniel Raiskin – conductor
Vassily Sinaisky – the chief conductor of JPO

Bártok, diagnosed with leukaemia, worked on his Third piano concerto during the last months of his life in 1945. His death came before he could finish the sheet music and so the last 17 bars of the concert were composed by his friend and student Tibor Serly. The concert premiered in February 1946 in Philadelphia with pianist György Sándor, another Bartók’s friend. Bartók composed the concert as a birthday present for his wife, pianist Ditta Pástzory. Although he worked on it aware of his impending death, we do not find tragedy and despair in this elegant neoclassicist piece, but nostalgia and love.

The composition of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 was preceded by an important historical event – the death of J. V. Stalin in 1953. The first sketches were presumably already being written still in the time of Stalin’s terror. “I depicted Stalin in my next symphony, the Tenth. I wrote it right after Stalin’s death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It is about Stalin and the Stalin years. The second part, the scherzo, is a musical portrait of Stalin, roughly speaking.” In the third movement, the author works with two musical motifs – with his own initials DSCH (which he used in his other pieces as well) and with the name of Elmira Nazirova (E La MI Re A), who was his student at the time.

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