SOIRÉE DE VIENNE

Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder’s latest album, Soirée de Vienne, features music by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and Strauss and celebrates his home city. The recording captures both the lost world of salon soirées and Vienna’s legendary attitude to life, with its heady blend of intensity and insouciance, earthiness and beauty. 

Soirée de Vienne is a love song to Vienna and the melting-pot of peoples, cultures and ideas it sustained in the 19th century. That mix is reflected in the citation for the OPUS Klassik Lifetime Achievement Award, which Buchbinder received in 2020: “In his work, [he] merges tradition and innovation, faithfulness to the work and freedom, authenticity and cosmopolitanism.”