To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov invites international pianist and soloist Kirill Gerstein for a special evening. The programme includes Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic work dotted with octaves, thirds, leaps and glissandi.

Liszt's Piano Concerto no. 2 Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov invites international pianist and soloist Kirill Gerstein for a special evening. The programme includes Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic work dotted with octaves, thirds, leaps and glissandi.
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7.7In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
6.6A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
6.7Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
8.0Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
7.0Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
8.4The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
8.0A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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6.2A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
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6.6Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician in the New York Philarmonic, it was inevitable that she would become the focus of much interest and fascination. Now 87 years old and recently retired, Orin looks back on her remarkable life and career, insisting that a fuss should not be made, much preferring to play a supporting role to the family, students, friends, and colleagues that surround her.
7.3Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
6.0Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.
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