A Sibelius evening with Simon Rattle and Leonidas Kavakos
On the second night of their performance of all of Sibelius’s symphonies in February 2015, Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker played the Third and the Fourth symphonies which both represent a fusion of Nordic melody and a pioneering concept. The soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is the Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos who, to quote the press, played “with an admirable slender tone”.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Leonidas Kavakos
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Our recommendations
- Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos and Zubin Mehta
- Gustavo Dudamel conducts “Also sprach Zarathustra”
- Simon Rattle conducts Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and Modernist concertos
- 2005 Europakonzert from Budapest with Simon Rattle and Leonidas Kavakos
- Adam Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos
- Simon Rattle conducts Schumann’s “Paradise and the Peri”