Georg Friedrich Haas: Piano Concerto (2007)

Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) Piano Concerto (2007) Thomas Larcher, piano ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien Martyn Brabbins, conductor World Première, 07 November 2007, Wiener Musikverein The concerto form fascinates me, much to my own surprise. My first work in the genre was my Violin Concerto, in which I very deliberately and precisely composed a contrast between and individual and a collective, whereby it is especially appropriate that the solo instrument is also in the orchestra (multiplied by 30), thus already founding the opposition of individual and group in the orchestration alone. On the other hand, the piano is an instrument which is fundamentally set apart from the orchestra. Here, I wish to formulate s personal affinity with or aversion to the piano; I was once a pianist in the past and I believe I became a composer because too much was lacking at the piano. Every point of concentration in my music is impossible on the piano: microtonality, Klangfarbe, pitc