Salonen Conducts 20th-Century Classics

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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 Interval: Tasmin Little picks some highlights in the coming week's Proms. 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.