Salonen Conducts 20th-Century Classics

Live at the BBC Proms: London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School orchestras conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in Stravinsky, Berg and Bartok.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

c.7.50pm
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c.8.10pm
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Vilde Frang (violin)
Juilliard Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen (conductor)

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.