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Live from the Barbican Hall, London. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Wagner and Haydn and the pianist Denis Kozhukhin joins them in Bartok.
The LSO's Music Director Designate closes the 2016/17 season with a programme of music which, he says, has always been close to his heart. In the first half of this Barbican Hall concert, Bartok's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto is prefaced by the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan, the work which famously liberated classical music from the shackles of tonality. And in the second half, Simon Rattle brings to London what he calls "An eccentric journey through Haydn ...The idea is to make a musical journey through all that is quirky and extraordinary, humorous and profound in Haydn. Hopefully this pasticcio will give a picture of the composer who most summed up all the ideals of the Enlightenment, of intelligence, respect, humour, wit and profound thought." Radio 3 brings this programme live from the Barbican Hall in a concert which sold out within minutes.

Presented by Martin Handley

Denis Kozhukin (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan and Isolde'
Bart贸k: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101

8.20pm: Interval Music: The London Haydn Quartet play Haydn's String Quartet in E flat, Op 3 no.2, 'The Joke'

Sir Simon Rattle introduces:
Haydn: An imaginary orchestral journey - featuring excerpts from Symphonies Nos 6, 45, 46, 60, 64, 90 and 101, 'The Creation', 'The Seasons', 'The Desert Island' and 'The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross'.