Sergei Nakariakov & Maria Meerovitch

"When the audience smiles or laughs directly at the performance of my works, it gives me great satisfaction." These words by Dmitri Shostakovich could be the motto of his first piano concerto. Already in his 24 Preludes, which Shostakovich had composed in the same year 1933, he showed a slight tendency to humour. In the first piano concerto, satire and comedy are unmistakable. Here the still carefree 26-year-old composer shows himself in all the splendour of his talent. In combination with the Concertino for trumpet, piano and string orchestra by the French composer André Jolivet as well as works by three Bach sons, this concert evening with Serkei Nakariakov (trumpet), Maria Meerovitch (piano) and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Willi Zimmermann promises to be an inspiring journey of discovery.