Swire Maestro Series:
Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Vaughan Williams 4
27 MAR 2027 (Sat) 5:00pm
Venue Information
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
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Programme
A Symphonic Metamorphosis in Defiance
“I don’t know if I like it, but it’s what I meant,” Vaughan Williams said at a rehearsal of his Fourth Symphony, a work that confronts the listener with fierce, dissonant music, hard-edged and refusing pastoral comfort. Tarmo Peltokoski, the HK Phil’s newly appointed Music Director, shapes the symphony’s relentless drive from its explosive opening to a finale of stark, defiant force. Esa-Pekka Salonen likewise embraces creative risk in his Cello Concerto, exploring new kinds of texture. In the spotlight is Finnish cellist Senja Rummukainen, who received a huge ovation for the work at the Salzburg Easter Festival, under Salonen’s own baton. The programme opens with Wagner’s Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I – subdued and sacred in its shimmering strings – a threshold moment that looks beyond German Romantic opera and completes the programme’s arc of artistic metamorphosis.
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
