Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven
5 DEC 2025 (Fri) 7:30pm
6 DEC 2025 (Sat) 5:00pm
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
For ages 6 and above
House Programme
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Programme
Experience an unforgettable evening with the HK Phil, conducted by rising star Ruth Reinhardt, who opens the concert with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s vibrant Gambit. Renowned pianist Emanuel Ax makes his long-awaited return to perform Beethoven’s powerful Third Piano Concerto, a masterpiece of emotional depth. The HK Phil Chorus then joins for Brahms’s poignant Nänie, a heartfelt tribute to friendship and loss. Finally, immerse yourself in Hindemith’s bold and dramatic Symphony: Mathis der Maler, composed during the turbulent years of Nazi Germany, yet still resonating powerfully with today’s audiences.
The concert runs approximately 1 hour 45 minutes with an intermission.
Artists
Other Activities
Free Pre-concert Talk
- Time
- 5 DEC 2025 (Fri) 6:45pm-7:15pm
6 DEC 2025 (Sat) 4:15pm-4:45pm
- Venue
- Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
- Speaker
5 DEC 2025 (Fri) 6 DEC 2025 (Sat) Mr Jimmy Shiu
Music Practitioner
(Conducted in Cantonese)
Mr. Jerome Hoberman
Music Director of The Hong Kong Bach Choir & Orchestra(Conducted in English)
General Discount:
- Full-time students, citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities & the minder*, CSSA recipients: 50% off (with quota, this discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers)
* For purchase of each concessionary ticket for people with disabilities, the customer can purchase one ticket of same concession for a minder.
- Club Bravo members: 15% off
- Young Audience Scheme members: 60% off (max. 1 ticket), accompanying adults – 10% off (max. 2 tickets)
- City Contemporary Dance Company “Dance Inspirations” members, Friends of Hong Kong Ballet, Zuni Friends: 10% off
- Chung Ying “Energy Fun Club plus” members, CineClub (including Classic & Patron Cardholders), Friends of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Friends of Hong Kong Dance Company (including Prestige & Classic Member), HKRep Pals: 10% off (max. 2 tickets)
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- City Contemporary Dance Company “Student Dance Inspirations” members, MyBookOne Club Member: 10% off
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- General public are entitled to 15% off for each purchase of standard tickets for 4 and more selected programmes
- Group Booking (standard tickets only): 10% off for 11-20 tickets, 15% off for 21-40 tickets
- No eating or drinking
- No photography, recording or filming
- Please turn off your mobile phone and other electronic devices
- Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance
- Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work
- Stalls C1-2/61-62, AA1-7/94-100, BB1-8/94-101 & HH27
- Wheelchair Box 1-2
