Elektra Suite & Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

At David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic places the Elektra Suite alongside Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, led by Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, with violinist María Dueñas as soloist. The suite distills the opera’s tragic core into orchestral episodes, tracing ritual, obsession, and the hard logic of revenge without the relief of sung narrative. New York has long been a proving ground for such modernist repertory, where European stage works enter concert life as symphonic arguments. Heard next to Beethoven’s poised classicism edging toward Romantic force, Elektra’s language feels like a later century answering back.