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London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle & Leonidas Kavakos

Unsuk Chin, Sibelius & Bartók

,Barbican Hall
Leonidas Kavakos

The 2020s meet the 1920s, as Sir Simon Rattle conducts Sibelius, Bartók, and the world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s new Violin Concerto.

A new year, and a brand-new masterpiece from Unsuk Chin, the poetic, dazzlingly original musical mind behind the opera Alice in Wonderland. She’s called it Shards of Silence, and it prepares the way for a musical journey back to the 1920s – when Sibelius and Bartók found equally astonishing, equally uncompromising new ways of listening to the world.

This is Chin’s second violin concerto. Her first is already a modern classic, and she hadn’t planned to write another – but when she heard the playing of Leonidas Kavakos, she broke her own rule. Naturally, he’s the soloist for tonight’s world-premiere performance, and since history demands context (even while you’re making it) Sir Simon Rattle completes the programme with Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony and Bartók’s brutal, brilliant Miraculous Mandarin Suite.

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This performance includes a 20-minute interval.

Programme

  • Unsuk Chin   Violin Concerto No 2, Scherben der Stille (world premiere)*
  • Jean Sibelius   Symphony No 7
  • Bela Bartók   The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite

* Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Performers

  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sir Simon Rattle   conductor
  • Leonidas Kavakos   violin

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