Salonen Conducts 20th-Century Classics
A raw classical night.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the combined orchestras of London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School in three 20th-century orchestral masterworks. Award-winning Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is the soloist in Berg’s heartbreaking elegy of a Violin Concerto, with its embedded Bach chorale, dedicated ‘to the memory of an angel’. Completed in the dying days of the Second World War, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements offers a ‘cinematographic impression of the war’ – jagged and convulsively rhythmic. Moving ‘from austerity to the affirmation of life’, Bartók’s 1943 Concerto for Orchestra responds more optimistically to war, defiant in its folk-inspired melodies and collective virtuosity.
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When and where does this performance take place?+
This performance happens on August 10, 2026, at the Royal Albert Hall located on Kensington Gore in South Kensington.
Who is performing at this show?+
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the combined orchestras of the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School, featuring violinist Vilde Frang.
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