Passionate. Stormy. Triumphant.
Walker, Bernstein and Walton 1
Sir Antonio Pappano and Carolin Widmann
Thursday 6 February 2025 • 7pm
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George Walker
Sinfonia No 5, ‘Visions’ (17 mins)
Leonard Bernstein
Serenade (33 mins)
Interval
William Walton
Symphony No 1 (42 mins)
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Carolin Widmann violin
London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will finish at approximately 9.15pm, including a 20-minute interval (timings subject to change).
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The Concert
Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Walton’s turbulent First Symphony, and a pair of passionate statements of love and outrage from two American greats.
The Music
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 Performers
The LSO and Pappano are the perfect team for these intensely dramatic works. Carolin Widmann brings her radiant playing to Bernstein’s most passionate music.
Change of soloist
Janine Jansen has the flu and, whilst hoping to be well enough to perform with the LSO this week, she has regretfully had to take the decision to withdraw from the concert on 6 February. The LSO is extremely grateful to Carolin Widmann for agreeing to step in as soloist for Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade at very short notice.
Posted 5 February 3.15pm
Concert recorded for future broadcast by Mezzo and Medici.tv
Dive Deeper
Sir Antonio Pappano
‘I want to explore music that I really, really love – and, the hope is, that the Orchestra will really love with me.’
Sir Antonio Pappano introduces his first season as Chief Conductor of the LSO.
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