Programme
- 4 Études(10 mins)
- LEVELS for orchestra(15 mins)(Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Commission, World Premiere)
- Piano Concerto(14 mins)
- interval
- Petrushka (1947 version)(35 mins)
Performers
- Joanna MacGregorpiano
- Ilan Volkovconductor
ESCAPE INTO FOLKTALES & MISCHIEF.
On a spring day in an imaginary Russia, an excited crowd gathers for a puppet show. Petrushka loves the Ballerina. She prefers another. Tragedy looms, but don’t worry: puppets don’t have souls…do they? Stravinsky’s 'Petrushka' paints Russian tradition in colours as bright as a piece of folk art – and as sinister as the 20th century. It’s a wonderfully bold finale for a concert that opens with Stravinsky at his most startling, and which unites two dauntless musical explorers – pianist Joanna MacGregor and our Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov – in the haunting, utterly original Piano Concerto by Howard Skempton. A striking new work by one of British music’s true radicals completes an evening of music that fascinates and thrills.
This concerts ends at approximately 9:10pm.