Swire Maestro Series: Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Vaughan Williams 4

“I don’t know if I like it, but it’s what I meant,” Vaughan Williams said at a rehearsal of his Fourth Symphony, a work that confronts the listener with fierce, dissonant music, hard-edged and refusing pastoral comfort. Tarmo Peltokoski, the HK Phil’s newly appointed Music Director, shapes the symphony’s relentless drive from its explosive opening to a finale of stark, defiant force.