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For the young French pianist H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud, September 11, 2001, was going to be a day of joy. She has travelled to London from her adopted home of New York to make her much-anticipated debut at the BBC Proms \u2013 the world’s biggest and perhaps best-known classical music festival. She is set to perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Orchester de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.<\/p>\n
But after the dress rehearsal in the Royal Albert Hall, everything changes in a single moment. In her hotel room, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud watches the horrific images coming from New York. A plane has flown into the World Trade Center. \u201cI thought it was the latest Hollywood horror production,” she remembers.<\/em><\/p>\nThe conductor of the upcoming performance, Christoph Eschenbach, is having lunch with the French ambassador in London when he hears about the terrorist attack. He and the organiser of the Proms, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, have a decision to make: Can you really put on a concert on a day such as this?<\/p>\n
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Sir Kenyon remarks: \u201cCancelling a Proms concert is no minor undertaking.<\/em> Even after the death of Lady Diana, we chose to go ahead with the performance.<\/em> And the people came.\u201d<\/em> Christoph Eschenbach and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud are also prepared to perform.<\/p>\nThe hall begins to fill. The mood is sombre. For H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud, the events have laid a leaden cloak of sadness and shock over the evening \u201cThey gave a concert of peace,\u201d<\/em> comments pianist Sophie Pacini. And indeed, after sounding the opening G major chord with trembling fingers, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud begins to play increasingly freely. \u201cThis moment of catastrophe and tension and questioning inspired her to a musical moment that was increasingly captivating.\u201d<\/p>\nIn the 2nd movement of Beethoven\u2019s concerto, her playing is even vocal. The Royal Albert Hall is charged with excitement. The Proms audience holds its breath in shared emotion. It is a collective and communal experience that Orchester de Paris<\/em> violist Estelle Villotte recalls more than two decades later. \u201cI cried on my viola during the concert.<\/em> But Christoph Eschenbach and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud carried me through.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThe dance-like and playful third movement is a liberation. For a moment at least, the terrible images from New York appear outshone by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud’s playing. And the mood changes. At the close of the piece, the audience responds with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> On September 11, 2001, two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York and the world seemed to stop for a moment. This film about the concert by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud and the Orchester de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach at the Royal Albert Hall tells the story of how sadness and dismay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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Am 11. September 2001 h\u00e4lt die Welt inne als Flugzeuge in das World Trade Center in New York fliegen. Wie aus Trauer und Entsetzen eine musikalische Sternstunde wird, wie Musik in diesen tragischen Momenten ein Mittel des Tr\u00f6stens sein kann, das zeigt dieser Film \u00fcber das Konzert von H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud mit dem Orchestre de Paris unter der Leitung von Christoph Eschenbach in der Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>
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