On Tour in West Palm Beach

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Walton’s turbulent First Symphony, and a pair of passionate statements of love and outrage from two American greats.

Walker’s Sinfonia No 5, ‘Visions’ was his final work, composed when he was 96, and written in response to a shocking act of racial violence. The composer’s outrage can be heard in its steely outbursts, restless energy, and urgent, jagged harmonies.

Bernstein has lively and learned conversations about love with writers from ancient Greece in his Serenade for violin and orchestra. And Walton’s powerful First Symphony concludes the concert, a blistering journey from personal turmoil to a rousing, celebratory ending.

The LSO and Pappano are the perfect team for these intensely dramatic works, while Janine Jansen brings her radiant playing to Bernstein’s most passionate music.