On Tour in Tokyo

The evening

Austrian composer Bruckner may have left his Symphony No 9 incomplete, but it still serves as a summation of his life, heard here in its three-movement form. The overwhelming Adagio stands as the work’s emotional, even religious, heart, while the pounding Scherzo is among the most bombastic and inspiring of anything Bruckner conceived.

While they were penned before he was even out of his teens, the music of Mozart’s violin concertos is as characteristically elegant and uplifting as anything he would ever write.

The LSO and the ‘once in a generation’ talent HIMARI team up for the first time across their tour in Asia and Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano summons the Orchestra’s full might for the symphonic second half.