Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Bartok
The London Symphony Orchestra perform Bartok with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, plus the ballet music from Manuel de Falla's Three Cornered Hat.
The captivating and adventurous violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a 2025/26 LSO Artist Portrait. In tonight's concert, she joins the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle, to play Bartok's Second Violin Concerto, a work written in 1938 during a period of unrest in Hungary. Patricia Kopatchinskaja says that it has marvellous, beautiful fairy-tale visions and stories in it.
Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham also joins the orchestra to sing Bartok's rarely performed Five Hungarian Folksongs, infused with tunes from his native country. The final work is Manuel de Falla's ballet music for The Three Cornered Hat, which is brimming with Spanish melodies and energetic dance rhythms.
Recorded on 18th January at the Barbican in London, and presented by Ian Skelly.
BELA BARTOK
Violin Concerto No 2
8.15pm
Interval
BELA BARTOK
Five Hungarian Folksongs for Voice and Orchestra
MANUEL DE FALLA
The Three Cornered Hat – Ballet
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Rinat Shaham (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
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- Wed 28 Jan 202619:30BBC Radio 3
