Brighton Festival
On Tour in Brighton
Susanna Mälkki & Leila Josefowicz
Brighton Dome
The Concert
Julia Perry
A Short Piece for Large Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Leila Josefowicz violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Tickets
Tickets available from the Brighton Festival.
The Concert
Showpieces for the orchestra meet a dazzling concerto, brimming with characteristic Stravinsky flair and melody, on tour at the Brighton Festival.
The Music
When Stravinsky met Dushkin, the first soloist of his Violin Concerto, he showed him a chord written on a napkin. This chord became what Stravinsky called the ‘passport’ for the work. It opens each movement, but the music that follows is different each time, from the lively opening and the melancholy Arias to the delicate finale.
Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was one of his last works. It celebrates every single instrument of the orchestra in a remarkable journey from solemnity to joy.
The Performers
Susanna Mälkki is one of today’s most versatile conductors, very much at home with these 20th-century orchestral landmarks. Leila Josefowicz sparkles in Stravinsky’s Concerto.
The general mood of the work represents … a gradual transition from the sternness of the first movement … to the life-assertion of the last one.
Béla Bartók
