Performance on 3 - Kurtag, Mozart, Kodaly, Bartok - Part 2

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The BBC Symphony Orchestra return to the Barbican Hall in London for a concert in which they perform works spanning two centuries of the intertwined musical stories of Hungary and Austria. Kodaly along with Bartok was an advocate of Hungarian folk music and although his Matrai Pictures are written as a seamlessly fluid piece, they are a compilation of five folk-songs which form a narrative thread. The concert ends with Bartok's 'pantomime' The Miraculous Mandarin, a score full of vibrant orchestrations, forceful rhythms and, once again, Hungarian folk themes. Jonathan Biss (piano) BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano (conductor) Kodaly: Matrai Pictures Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Followed by a focus on Sing Hallelujah, a UK-wide celebration of choral singing inspired by Handel's famous chorus.