Philharmonia Orchestra launches Bartók series in London
(January 2011)
This month sees the Philharmonia Orchestra launching a year-long focus on the music of Bartók, planned by Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.The Philharmonia Orchestra's exciting new Bartók series Infernal Dance opens on 23 January with a Study Day and the first Southbank Centre concert with Esa-Pekka Salonen on 27 January includes the complete The Miraculous Mandarin, Piano Concerto No.1 and Kossuth.
The core of the concert strand is the composer’s three stageworks and major orchestral scores, spanning half a century from Kossuth (1903) to Piano Concerto No.3 (1945). Other concerts include a cycle of the six quartets with the Takács Quartet, a Hungarian folk music evening, and events by Royal College of Music students including a marathon performance of the complete Mikrokosmos.
For a full listing of events visit the Infernal Dance microsite at www.philharmonia.co.uk/bartok.
A wealth of resources and outreach events include talks by series consultant Malcolm Gillies, foyer concerts, online articles by leading Bartók scholars, and a sequence of videos exploring the composer’s unique fusion of music, art and folk traditions, the political and ethnic tensions in his native Hungary and his eventual move to America.
Watch video on Bartók in America presented by Esa-Pekka Salonen, courtesy of the Philharmonia.
In addition to UK concerts, the Philharmonia is touring Bartók repertoire this autumn to Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, Dijon, Dortmund, Cologne and Paris.
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