Brussels Philharmonic, Vlaams Radiokoor, Ilan Volkov & Lawrence Power

Leoš Janáček was 72 when he wrote Ríkadla, a collection of nursery rhymes about, amongst other things, the marriage of a beetroot and a woman who falls in the soup. Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin, a magical realistic pantomime full of eroticism and violence that was banned in 1926, goes well with this series of absurd tales. The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vlaams Radiokoor combine these two imaginative works with an exclusive world premiere: The Concerto for Viola written by Cassandra Miller, one of today’s most fascinating composers.

programme

Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928)
Říkadla

Cassandra Miller (1976)
I cannot love without trembling - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (world premiere)

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19

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