No stranger to the spotlight, Hardenberger takes centre stage for Aerial, a work written with and for him by Austrian composer HK Gruber.
Described by the Chicago Tribune as ‘a weird, wondrous, exhilarating tour de force”, it’s a repertoire-expanding piece full of extended techniques and prismatic colours. Believe us when we say you have never heard anything like this theatrical and thoroughly enjoyable work.

Gruber’s concerto explores the idea of dance, and that theme carries through the rest of the program. The suite from Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier is infused with the sweeping elegance of the Viennese waltz, while Ravel’s La Valse evokes a similar scene through some of that composer’s most romantic music.