‘Belgian National Orchesta, González-Monjas & Ibragimova’

When Mozart was in the service of the Salzburg archbishops in the 1770s, he wrote a series of five violin concertos. The Russian-British violinist Alina Ibragimova performs the last and most important of these. The third and final movement of the Fifth Violin Concerto is particularly special: a rondo that begins with an amiable theme, but suddenly turns into what was known in Mozart's time as "Turkish music".Then the Belgian National Orchestra, in collaboration with Bozar and La Monnaie, embarks on a major Mahler cycle. The ambition? To give the best performances of all the Mahler symphonies in Brussels in less than two years! In this concert, guest conductor Roberto González-Monjas takes on Mahler's First Symphony.