Season Finale: Jukka-Pekka Saraste & Igor Levit
19 JUN 2027 (Sat) 5:00pm
Venue Information
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
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Programme
Visceral reflections on life, death and desire
A sparkling ray of sunshine lights up the HK Phil’s season finale, opening with Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen’s Midnight (Sun) Variations, inspired by the Arctic summer night and the birth of her first child. Igor Levit, hailed by The New Yorker as “a pianist like no other”, brings fearless intensity and intellectual clarity to Prokofiev’s progressive Second Piano Concerto – a work that once bewildered audiences, yet was recognised as a work of genius for its originality, written in memory of a friend of the composer at the St Petersburg Conservatory who died by suicide. Following his acclaimed HK Phil debut in 2024, Jukka-Pekka Saraste returns to close the season with Tchaikovsky’s fate-driven Fourth Symphony, a gripping journey from inner conflict to hard-won affirmation.
The concert runs approximately 2 hours with an intermission.
Artists
- No eating or drinking
- No photography, recording or filming
- Latecomers will only be admitted at suitable break
- Please turn off your mobile phone and other electronic devices
- Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance
- Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work
