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Constantly in Motion: Beat Furrer’s New Piano Concerto

Oct. 18, 2025

Almost twenty years after his first piano concerto, Beat Furrer again explored the concertante interplay of piano and orchestra. The result is a brilliant work, which was succesfully premiered by Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott on September 3-4 in Geneva. The essence lies in keeping the relationship of the solo instrument to the orchestra in constant motion, which increases or reduces the resonating space, “in order to create changing perspectives on the sound of the piano through constantly transforming harmonic relationships,” says Beat Furrer. Piano Concerto No. 2 will be performed again on April 24, 2026 at "musica viva" in Munich. Read more in [t]aktehere.

Listen to Beat Furrer's Piano Concerto (2007):

Piano Concerto/Beat Furrer/Nicolas Hodges, piano/WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln/Peter Rundel, conductor

To learn more about Beat Furrer, visit baerenreiter.com.

Beat Furrer
Piano Concerto No. 2 (2025)
pno solo-2.1.3.2-2.4.2.1-acc.2perc-pno-str(10.10.8.6.4)
25'
Bärenreiter-Verlag, BA 11767-72, performance material available on hire

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