GREAT PERFORMERS

She is eclectic, imaginative, unpredictable, she performs barefoot and says her first teacher was the rain. She plays the violin, but loves to sing Schoenberg and Ligeti. He is a Czech conductor, in his early forties, who has been principal guest conductor of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for six months. For both of them, the new, unknown works are more exciting than those they have heard a thousand times. On this occasion, however, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Jakub Hrůša, together with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, offer an unconventional interpretation of two great classics.