Philharmonia Orchestra: Infernal Dance: Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin

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Infernal Dance: Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 27 Jan 2011 7:30pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen

conductor

Yefim Bronfman

piano

Philharmonia Voices

Bartók

Kossuth

Bartók

Piano Concerto No. 1

Bartók

The Miraculous Mandarin (complete)

The Meyer Foundation

Esa-Pekka Salonen has chosen to open Infernal Dance with a programme featuring two of Bartók’s most extraordinary works. The choral tone poem Kossuth was Bartók’s first major orchestral work, and a dramatic statement of intent; it celebrates the life of its eponymous hero, one of Hungary’s most vivid national legends. The ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin, profoundly influenced by Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Firebird, is raw, dangerous, exotic and elemental: frenzied music, percussive, sensuous and violent, telling a shocking story of desire and death. This evening’s performance features the full ballet score, which is rarely performed.

Infernal Dance is supported by The Meyer Foundation.