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 Saturday 10 April 7.30pm
ELGAR In the South (Alassio)
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor
IAN McQUEEN Earthly Paradise (BBC commission: world premiere)
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
Jennifer Pike violin
BBC Symphony Chorus
The search for the land where ‘none grow old’ guides the twists and turns of William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise. Ian McQueen’s new work for chorus and large orchestra evokes the poem's extraordinary world, surges with erotic charge, and conjures up Morris’s magical vision of Iceland’s landscape and sagas. Jennifer Pike made headline news eight years ago as the youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year. Tonight she applies her special artistry and élan to Mendelssohn’s evergreen Violin Concerto.
BBC Family Music Intro concert
An introduction to concert-going for families with tickets at £5 each and a free Meet the Musicians Family event.
Full details of BBC SO Family Music Intro
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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 Saturday 17 April 7.30pm
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
MARTINU Symphony No.3
Jiří Bĕlohlávek conductor
Barry Douglas piano
Having written his Second Symphony, Martinů became increasingly depressed and exhausted. He sought refuge in reading and exploring New York’s second-hand book stores, but was unable to shake off uncharacteristic feelings of despair and intense homesickness. Those feelings are never far from the Third Symphony’s surface. Here is the work of an exile yearning for peace in the world. Peace was far from Prokofiev’s mind when he wrote his Second Piano Concerto, its ‘futurist’ wildness causing a riot following its premiere in the refined Russian town of Pavovsk.
Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Barbican Hall
An introduction to tonight’s concert
BBC Family Music Intro concert
An introduction to concert-going for families with tickets at £5 each and a free Meet the Musicians Family event.
Full details of BBC SO Family Music Intro
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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 Friday 23 April 7.00pm
JORG WIDMANN Lied
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a theme
of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8 in
C minor
Lawrence Renes conductor
Stephen Hough piano
Jörg Widmann ranks among the finest composers of his generation. His flamboyant piece for trumpet and orchestra, ad absurdum, had the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s audience calling ‘encore’ after its UK premiere in 2007. The revised version of Lied receives its first UK outing tonight, an occasion not to be missed! Widmann builds a colossal Mahlerian orchestral work around fleeting traces of Schubert melodies. Rachmaninov with Stephen Hough and the ‘tragedy to triumph’ of Shostakovich’s wartime Eighth Symphony make excellent Widmann partners.
Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Mozart Room
An introduction to tonight’s concert.
Free to ticket-holders for the evening concert. Limited availability – please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
BBC Family Music Intro concert
An introduction to concert-going for families with tickets at £5 each and a free Meet the Musicians Family event.
Full details of BBC SO Family Music Intro
£24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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