Performer: Elsbeth Moser

Omer Meir Wellber conducts his first Bridgewater Hall concert as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic.

Retour sur le dernier concert de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France cette saison, avec la création du Triple Concerto de Sofia Gubaïdulina. 

In Zurich’s new and provisional Tonhalle Maag, Omer Meir Wellber recently conducted a triple bill of works from the Baroque, Romantic and modern periods.

Sofia Gubaidulina has always been drawn to non-traditional sounds, something which invariably landed her in trouble during the Soviet era. The bayan, a 200-button Russian accordion, became the source for many of those sounds in solo and concerted pieces. “It breathes,” she has said, possessing an “earthy quality like no other instrument”.