Organization

Dirigat

Pekka Kuusisto

Instrument

Clarinetist

Martin Fröst

Clarinet

Southbank Centre

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Romeo & Juliet Forever: Pekka Kuusisto conducts

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Royal Festival Hall

Romeo & Juliet Forever: Pekka Kuusisto conducts: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (+3 More)

Public

Private

Die Capulets und die Montagues

Clarinet Concerto, 'Weathered'

Romeo und Julia Fantasie-Ouvertüre

Sinfonische Tänze aus West Side Story

Genehmigt

As long as teenagers fall in love, the story of Romeo and Juliet will never go out of fashion.

Pekka Kuusisto brings together three composers’ takes on Shakespeare’s story, from the ‘Sinfonia’ that opens Bellini’s 1830 opera The Capulets and the Montagues, to Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway triumph West Side Story. Bellini’s trumpets and drums foretell a fatal battle, Tchaikovsky frames his yearning love theme with music full of anxiety and violence. And Bernstein captures the febrile energy and passion of adolescence in memorable numbers including ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Mambo’.

“Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst, you really haven’t heard the clarinet”, according to The Times. Well now’s your chance – the extraordinarily talented Fröst is the soloist in a new concerto, Weathered, by our Featured Composer Anna Clyne. The concerto is in five short movements, each describing a different material being weathered – worn down, re-shaped, damaged, but perhaps also rendered more beautiful and more precious.

English

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