Leonidas Kavakos in Shostakovitch’s Violin Concerto No. 2
Internationally renowned violinist Leonida Kavakos returns to the Swedish Radio concert hall Berwaldhallen with Dmitri Shostakovich’s last concerto, the second for violin in C-sharp major. The Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada also conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss: the symphonic poems Tod und Verklärung, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche and Der Rosenkavalier suite.
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The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
Leonidas Kavakos är erkänd över hela världen som en violinist och artist av sällsynt kvalitet, hyllad för sin oöverträffade teknik, sin fängslande konstnärlighet och sitt enastående musikerskap, samt integriteten i sitt spel.
Kavakos har under sin karriär utvecklat nära relationer med stora orkestrar som Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw-orkestern, London Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig och många fler.
Under de senaste åren har han lyckats bygga en stark profil som dirigent och har dirigerat New York Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dallas Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala och Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
2022 släppte Kavakos albumet Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op.1, No. 3 arrangerade för trio, med Emanuel Ax och Yo-Yo Ma på Sony Classics. Fler album från denna serie med arrangemang av Beethovens symfonier kommer att släppas under de kommande åren. För sin inspelningar har Kavakos tidigare blivit utsedd till Gramophone Magazine Artist of the Year.
Född och uppvuxen i en musikalisk familj i Aten, arrangerar Kavakos en årlig violin- och kammarmusikmästarklass i Aten, som lockar violinister och ensembler från hela världen. Han spelar på en ’Willemotte’ Stradivarius-violin från 1734.
Approximate concert length: 2 hours 10 minutes with intermission
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