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Ahead of Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic's two visits to the 麻豆社 Proms in September, a chance to hear a spectacular concert recorded earlier this year at the orchestra's home, the Berlin Philhamonie.

Lisa Batiashvili, is the soloist in Karol Szymanowski鈥檚 intensely passionate, richly colourful and exotic-sounding Violin Concerto No 1, a secret love letter to the player it was originally conceived for, fellow Pole Paul Kochanski.

There are few secrets in Richard Strauss's Symphonia domestica. Strauss was already a major international figure 1902 when, after a triumphant trip to London, he took a little holiday on the Isle of Wight, where the initial ideas for the Symphonia domestica took root. The music vividly depicts Strauss's family life: a screaming baby, a nocturnal love scene, marital strife and a final and jolly reconciliation (the day after he arrived on the Isle of Wight, Strauss received a telegram from his wife asking for a divorce). Sometimes criticised for an unhappy combination of the grandiose and banal, the Symphonia domestica is by any reckoning a thrilling orchestral tour de force, especially in a performance like this.

Introduced by Ian Skelly.

Brahms: Tragic Overture, op 81
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1, op 35
Richard Strauss: Symphonia domestica, op 53

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko (conductor)