Susanna Mälkki leads the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in concerts on February 28 & March 1, at the DR Koncerthuset. Described as “a brilliant interpreter of new music”, Mälkki conducts Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a gripping and magical five-movement work that Bartók composed in 1944 as a Hungarian refugee in the United States.
Completing the program is the Denmark premiere of Fredrik Högberg’s Baboon Concerto, a playful, fourteen-movement work for bassoon soloist and full orchestra. Co-commissioned by the Swedish Radio P2, the DR Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Högberg wrote this work for the DR Symphony Orchestra’s own bassoon soloist, Sebastian Stevensson.
Sebastian Stevensson talks about Högberg’s new work: