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London Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth

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François-Xavier Roth

The future starts here, as Håkan Hardenberger and Patricia Kopatchinskaja join François-Xavier Roth for a concert that pairs Richard Strauss with three 21st-century premieres.

The young Richard Strauss was a risk-taker – a musical innovator so dizzyingly irreverent that even his own father sometimes thought he’d gone too far. Here two of Strauss’ most audacious early masterpieces frame premieres by three of the brightest musical imaginations working right here, right now.

So Håkan Hardenberger – arguably the greatest living classical trumpeter – premieres the new concerto by Helen Grime: one of those composers whose name alone guarantees something utterly original. There’s a solar-powered new showpiece by Joel Järventausta, a student of George Benjamin. Francisco Coll, meanwhile, is a painter well as a musician, and his Violin Concerto was created especially for Patricia Kopatchinskaja. 

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Programme

  • Joel Järventausta   Sunfall (world premiere)*
  • Richard Strauss   Till Eulenspiegel
  • Helen Grime   Trumpet Concerto: night-sky-blue (world premiere)‡
  • Francisco Coll   Violin Concerto (UK premiere)†
  • Richard Strauss   Death and Transfiguration

‡ Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, Library of Congress, London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

* Commissioned through the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme, generously supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust.

† Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg & Philharmonie Luxembourg, Seattle Symphony, the NTR ZaterdagMatinee, Radio 4’s concert series in the Concertgebouw and Bamberger Symphoniker, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Performers

  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • François-Xavier Roth   conductor
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja   violin
  • Håkan Hardenberger   trumpet

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