Work: Violin Concerto in D major

By the close of the performance, one sensed that the audience’s exhilaration stemmed less from polished execution and more from a shared immersion in the music’s dramatic arc—elements that lingered as the defining memory of this eventful evening.

Julia Perry and two Europeans exiled to America feature in Susanna Mälkki's London Symphony Orchestra programme, featuring Leila Josefowicz as soloist in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. 

The Czech conductor impresses in a wide-ranging program featuring a world premiere by Jesse Montogomery and the Philharmonic debut of the Moravian violinist.