Interview
Susanna Mälkki in conversation with Matthew McDonald
Susanna Mälkki and Gil Shaham
The works of this evening with Susanna Mälkki look both back to the past and forward to the future. For example, Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, with soloist Gil Shaham, is in the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms but also experiments with the twelve-tone technique. Jean Sibelius’s Second Symphony, on the other hand, combines echoes of Tchaikovsky with innovative form, while Ferruccio Busoni’s Tanz-Walzer conjures up the atmosphere of a coffee house.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Susanna Mälkki
Gil Shaham
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