TUGAN SOKHIEV Thursday 12 December 2013 7.30pm Tugan Sokhiev conductor Viktoria Mullova violin Anastasia Kalagina soprano MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto MAHLER Symphony No. 4
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Two of the most enchanting pieces of the Romantic era, Mendelssohn’s life-enhancing concerto creates the impression of having been conceived in one miraculous sweep (in fact it took him six years, on and off), while Mahler’s Fourth possesses a magical, Mendelssohnian innocence, culminating in one of the most angelically beautiful song-settings ever composed.
ANDRIS NELSONS: BRAHMS CYCLE B
Thursday 23 January 2014 7.30pm
Andris Nelsons conductor Hélène Grimaud piano
Fourth Symphony was the last of his works he saw performed. Applause broke out at the end of every movement leaving the great man with tears streaming down his face.
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 Andris Nelsons’s Brahms series continues with the epic Second Piano Concerto, a symphonic powerhouse of scorching virtuosity that the composer mischievously described as ‘a set of little piano pieces’. The majestic
Sponsored by The Meyer Foundation 6pm, Music of Today, Royal Festival Hall. A portrait of Jonathan Harvey conducted by Antony Hermus with Hae-Sun Kang (violin). FREE admission
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