About this concert
With our chief conductor designate, we kick off our tour of East Asia in Seoul. Kirill Gerstein has made frequent guest appearances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, but never before has he performed Brahms with us. In Seoul, you can hear him in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
After the interval, we will be performing Bartók’s irresistible
Concerto for Orchestra
, the unexpectedly powerful, vibrant masterpiece that Bartók produced in his final dark years – a pure celebration of life itself.
Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is a powerful, vibrant masterpiece – a pure celebration of life itself.
