Channel: Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK)

Category: Music

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Description: Steven Osborne plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in our next online concert, available worldwide from 7.30pm BST on Thursday 20 May. Tickets £12: philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/streamed-from-southbank-centre-210506. The concert also features glorious music for brass by Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice Suite. In this interview, Steven Osborne talks about his childhood obsession with the piano, a soloist's responsibility to bring their own emotions to a performance, and how the opening of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto 'really reminds me of an ice-skating routine.'