Live choice
Feb 20, 2020
3 minutes
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LONDON
London Symphony Orchestra
The Barbican, 19 March
Tel: +44 (0)20 7638 8891
Web: www.barbican.org.uk
Composed during World War I, Bartók’s ‘pantomime-ballet’ The Wooden Prince has tended to live in the shadow of its younger sibling The Miraculous Mandarin. Under conductor François-Xavier Roth, however, it takes centre stage alongside Bartók’s Dance Suite and, performed by Isabelle Faust, Berg’s Violin Concerto.
San Francisco Symphony
Royal Festival Hall, 21, 22 March
Tel: +44 (0)20 3879 9555
Web: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Michael Tilson Thomas spearheads his West Coast band in Mahler’s fateful Symphony No. 6 and the UK premiere of John Adams’s . Theand Daniil Trifonov navigates Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
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