| Kristóf Baráti | Violon |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Direction |
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Principal Guest Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts music by Khachaturian and Stravinsky.
The condensed Suite from Stravinsky's The Firebird is set alongside the rhythmic vivacity and emotional fervour of Khachaturian's rhapsodic Violin Concerto.
The Stravinsky who would change music forever was first glimpsed in the luminous 1910 score The Firebird. In this blazing ballet music, Stravinsky unleashed the expressive powers with which he would shock and enchant generations of theatregoers.
The composer had found the perfect subject matter in the compelling collision of the evil powers of Kaschei the Magician with the forceful good of the irrepressible Firebird; the ballet would end in an infernal dance, ripe for Stravinsky's own brand of violent syncopation.
Royal Festival Hall at 6pm. SHAKESPEARE400. Dr Lucy Munro, Lecturer in Shakespeare at King's College, London, places Strauss's Overture in the context of the history of spectacular theatrical productions of Macbeth in the late nineteenth century. Free.
