Name: Bartók's Concerto For Orchestra
Start: 2025-03-23
End: 2025-03-23
Location: Royal Festival Hall

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Bruce Liu

Piano

Bartók's Concerto For Orchestra

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

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Concert

Paganini Rhapsody

Concerto for Orchestra in F Minor, Sz. 116, BB 123

The Sea Hawk

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Rachmaninov’s world was turned completely upside down by the Great War. Severed from his roots, he fled Russia and began a career as a globetrotting pianist. His devilish set of variations, performed here by Bruce Liu – winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition – embodies this nomadic life: written in Switzerland, premiered in America, based on a tune by Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini and infused with Rachmaninov’s own Russian style. Composers Erich Korngold and Béla Bartók were also forced by politics to leave their homes: both fled from fascism to the New World, and Korngold’s swashbuckling film score is practically a hymn to freedom. Bartók’s spectacular Concerto for Orchestra, meanwhile, is more than just a multi-coloured showcase, it’s a struggle between darkness and light, crowned by a mighty shout of joy.

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Bartók's Concerto For Orchestra by Rachmaninoff, Bartók, Korngold, Sun 23 Mar 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Vasily Petrenko, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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