Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) | Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic" |
Performers
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | Conductor |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | |
| Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Piano |
| Tamara Stefanovich | Piano |
| Emmanuel Curt | Percussion |
| Antoine Siguré | Percussion |
Cosmic and combustive, Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion hurtles through infectious rhythms and leaping melodies via the sparse, eerie, mystical sonorities of what Bartók termed his ‘night music’. Further into darkness, Mahler’s Sixth, ‘Tragic’ Symphony builds to the famous hammer strokes or inexorable blows of fate which Mahler felt like the ‘stroke of an axe’.
