Petrenko Conducts Petrushka

With Vasily Petrenko on the podium, the programme features three masterful portraits of some of the 20th century's great composers. Prokofiev's tribute to Haydn and Mozart meets Ravel's jazz-infused piano concerto, before Stravinsky's sparkling Petrushka closes out the concert. With French pianist Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, this becomes a journey from 18th-century elegance to modernism's boldest experiments, all wrapped in music that both challenges and delights.

Within just a few decades, from the final days of late Romanticism to the post-war era, some of the greatest transformations in music history took place. Composers broke with tradition, explored new worlds, and created works that still feel fresh today. This is music born of revolutions, the buzz of the metropolis, and the seductive rhythms of jazz.

This concert presents three works that each, in their own way, came to terms with the past. Prokofiev played with Classicism, Ravel let Manhattan and jazz seep into his piano concerto, and Stravinsky bid a definitive farewell to the Romantic orchestra.