Since his victory at the Paganini Competition in 2010, violinist Kristóf Baráti has been a force to be reckoned with. In addition to Paganini's Second Concerto, which includes the famous ‘Campanella’, he plunges here into Alexey Shor's world of Mozartian refinement. Brahms's final Symphony completes the programme.
1914, 1945: the dates of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony and Bartók's Concerto for two Pianos mark the boundaries of the upheavals that struck the early twentieth century. Sibelius's compatriot Klaus Mäkelä and pianists Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov perform this demanding programme.