Berlin Philharmonic Plays Beethoven and Scriabin

Live at the BBC Proms: Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Scriabin's Symphony No. 3, and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Augustin Hadelich.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major

c.7.50pm
Interval: Scriabin was interested in the philosophical ideas of Helena Blavatsky. Chris Harding is the author of The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East, and he joins Kate Molleson to discuss the influence of theosophy.

c.8.10pm
Alexander Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘The Divine Poem’

Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

The ‘sumptuous’ and ‘sublime’ Berlin Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko pair Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – with the singing lyricism of its slow movement and exuberant dancing Rondo – with the rapturous musical tussle of Scriabin’s Third Symphony: worldly pleasure and spiritual enlightenment locked in an intoxicating, mystical battle of wills, ‘A joyful and liberating affirmation of... liberty and unity with the universe’. Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich returns to the Proms following his ‘intimate, poised and heartbreakingly direct’ performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto last season.