Nelson Goerner & the Suisse Romande Orchestra

Pianist Nelson Goerner joins the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at Geneva's Victoria Hall for an evening of Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Recorded in 2025 at Victoria Hall in Geneva, the historic home of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande since its founding in 1918, this concert opens with Modlitva, a short work for string orchestra co-composed by Roxanna Panufnik and her father, the celebrated Polish-British composer Andrzej Panufnik. Setting words by the Polish poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, it offers a quiet, prayer-like opening and stands as a profound act of filial tribute, an intimate prelude before the evening's larger canvas unfolds.

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595, was his last piano concerto, first performed in Vienna in 1791, the year of his death. Composed amid personal and financial difficulties, it embodies the introspective qualities of his late style. Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner, who won the Geneva International Music Competition in 1990 and has since established himself as one of the foremost pianists of his generation, brings lyrical poetry and commanding conviction to this valedictory masterwork.

After the interval, the OSR performs under Jonathan Nott, its Music and Artistic Director since 2017, in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 in D major, the least frequently performed of the six. A transitional work structured as a five-movement suite, it moves through distinctly contrasting moods: Russian character, fantastical visions, elegiac sentiment, a fairy-tale scherzo, and a polonaise rhythm in the finale that has sometimes given the symphony its apocryphal subtitle.

Production year 2025
Genre Live Show
Recording location Victoria Hall, Geneva
Duration 1:31:00
Musical style Classical
Conductor Jonathan Nott