Philharmonia Orchestra: Mälkki conducts at the BBC Proms

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Mälkki conducts at the BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall
Mon 13 Aug 2012 7:30pm

Susanna Mälkki

conductor

Lawrence Power

viola

Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Neuwirth

Remnants of Songs...an Amphigory

Bartók

Concerto for Orchestra

Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra is probably his best-known work. Written in 1943 and one of his final works, all the hallmarks of Bartok’s music are here: fierce, rhythmic energy, vivid extremes of colour, folk themes interwoven with glorious melodies. It is a spectacle in every sense, and one that demands a virtuoso display from the entire orchestra. It is performed alongside excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet music, seen by many as the unrivalled musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, and Olga Neuwirth’s 2009 composition Remnants of Songs…an Amphigory, a piece based on a book by Ulrich Baer which contrasts two ideas – one serious, the other playful: the shock-like influence of specific historical experiences on artistic creation, and non-sense poetry.

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