Desire, brutality and the supernatural are shaken together in the orchestral kaleidoscope of Bart贸k鈥檚 ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. Josep Pons conducts the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra in the last of Bart贸k鈥檚 three great music-theatre scores, an electrifying fusion of folk music and modernism. Angular brilliance gives way to exotic, Impressionistic colours in Dukas鈥檚 exotic 鈥榙anced poem鈥� La P茅ri. 鈥楻emarkable鈥� Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is the soloist in Rachmaninov鈥檚 thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

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