The Miraculous Mandarin

Esa-Pekka Salonen opens his year-long Béla Bartók series by conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Philharmonia Voices, with pianist Yefim Bronfman, in the composer's choral tone poem 'Kossuth'; Piano Concerto No 1; and his ballet-pantomime 'The Miraculous Mandarin' (complete). (Note: at 6pm, a pre-concert talk; free.)