{"id":15057,"date":"2026-03-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:57:52","slug":"beethoven-premiere-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/beethoven-premiere-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven Premiere in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March, the <strong>Chamber Orchestra of Europe<\/strong> is invited to Athens, where it will perform Beethoven\u2019s piano concertos over two days with <strong>Kirill Gerstein<\/strong>. What makes this two-day residency particularly special is that Gerstein is including Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 0 in the cycle. Before there was a \u201cNo. 1,\u201d there was effectively a \u201cNo. 0,\u201d written by the young Beethoven around 1785, at the age of 13 or 14. This work predates his officially numbered piano concertos and clearly shows the influence of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was never published during Beethoven\u2019s lifetime, and he himself did not assign it a number. It was only published posthumously in the catalogue as WoO 4 (\u201cWerk ohne Opuszahl\u201d \u2014 work without opus number).<br><br>For the COE, the performance of this partially surviving work marks a premiere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\r\n<strong><strong><strong><strong>18 &amp; 19 March 2026, Megaron &#8211; The Athens Concert Hall<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>BEETHOVEN PIANO CYCLE<br><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Chamber Orchestra of Europe \/ Kirill Gerstein, piano &amp; leader<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>L. v. Beethoven: Piano concertos 1 &#8211; 5, WoO 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is touring to Athens with Kirill Gerstein.<a href=\"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/beethoven-premiere-in-athens\/\" class=\"more-link\">MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-news.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15060,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions\/15060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}