Work: A Survivor from Warsaw, for narrator, male chorus and orchestra, Op.46

A perennially unsettling pair of complementary post-war masterpieces, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, and a moving return to London for Gidon Kremer. 

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

History was never more relevant than in this musical observance of a modern political milestone.