| Orchestra or Band | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Performance Notes | Frederic Chopin took the piano and transformed it into the ultimate vehicle for the Romantic imagination. Theres a burning fire beneath the poetry of his music, or as one contemporary put it cannons hidden in flowers. In the hands of Yunchan Lim who in 2022 became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition his Second Piano Concerto will blaze as never before. But first comes Mussorgsky, battling his demons in music of spine-tingling drama.
And then Vasily Petrenko is our guide as we join Richard Strauss on a sonic ascent into the Bavarian Alps. Expect waterfalls, glaciers, alpine meadows and soul-shaking vistas, all painted in some of the most dazzling sounds ever imagined for a supersized orchestra. |