London Philharmonia OrchestraSanttu-Matias Rouvali (conductor), Alena Baeva (violin)
Alena Baeva comes to the Isarphilharmonie with Prokofiev’s second violin concerto, which celebrates melody and simplicity as well as exuberant virtuosity. She is accompanied by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra with its principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who already has a remarkable career on the podium in his mid-thirties.
Alena Baeva comes to the Isarphilharmonie with Prokofiev’s second violin concerto, which celebrates melody and simplicity as well as exuberant virtuosity. She is accompanied by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra with its principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who already has a remarkable career on the podium in his mid-thirties.
It is with great regret that Hilary Hahn has had to cancel her participation in the tour of the London Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali due to her ongoing recovery from a trapped nerve. This also affects the orchestra’s performance at the Isarphilharmonie on 27 January 2026. We would like to thank Alena Baeva, who will step in for Rouvali as the soloist for Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2. The evening’s programme remains unchanged.
Alena Baeva is one of her generation’s outstanding violinists and has been praised by the New York Classical Review as a “magnetic presence”. Possessing a passionate musical curiosity, Baeva holds a vast active repertoire of over fifty violin concertos. Performing internationally with leading orchestras and conductors, she was only recently on stage at the Vienna Konzerthaus’s season opener, where she delighted audiences and press alike together with Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä. Alena Baeva plays on the “Ex-William Kroll” Guarneri del Gesù of 1738 – a generous loan from an anonymous patron. Her technical brilliance and depth of expression characterise her interpretations and turn her performances into impressive concert experiences.
Programme
- Sibelius: En Saga, Op 9
- Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63
- Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op 45
With
- London Philharmonia Orchestra
- Alena Baeva, violin
- Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Hilary Hahn, violin
