"You expect Frank Sinatra to sing this sort of music, these sorts of harmony changes. But it’s a Prokofiev Violin Concerto." - violinist Pekka Kuusisto on Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto

Pekka Kuusisto takes a very personal look at Prokofiev's light-filled First Violin Concerto, which he performs with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy in May 2018:
https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/series/68/voices_of_revolution_russia_1917

“Strauss can be conducted by an orangutan and it still sounds pretty nice. Mahler... not so.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen reveals why so many conductors fall in love with Mahler’s enigmatic music.

Join us as he brings to life the raucous First Symphony in Leicester, Basingstoke and London next week: https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/soloist/63/fray__david