Budapest Festival Orchestra

The Concertino series, featuring works for chamber orchestra, this time launches a musical expedition to the north. The departure point was Salzburg: on his return from his second trip to Italy, Mozart composed his Symphony No. 15 here, and it was here that he wrote his Violin Concerto No. 5, with which he bid farewell to the genre at the age of just under twenty as he gradually explored and pushed the limits of the violin concerto’s scope and technique. Janáček’s Suite for String Orchestra from the composer’s early period will be performed in the Czech Republic. The final destination will be Norway, where the BFO, led by János Pilz, will bring Grieg’s two melodies based on folk songs. The soloist for the evening is Berlin Konzerthausorchester’s first concertmaster Suyoen Kim, who plays Mozart with “charm, a seductively warm tone and fluid melodies”, according to The Strad journalist.