Wednesday 24 September, 7.30pm
DISCOVER
Thursday 2 October, 7.30pm
RELAX & REVITALISE
Romantic Journeys
Panufnik Centenary
When Andrzej Panufnik escaped from communist Poland, Britain offered him a home - and so it was that one of Europe’s greatest post-war composers became principal conductor of the CBSO. Tonight, on what would have been his 100th birthday, we celebrate with some of the music Panufnik conducted in Birmingham, and two of his own finest works: as fresh and communicative today as when he conducted them here himself. Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of Polska Music programme
© Benjamin Ealovega
© By kind permission of Lady Camilla Panufnik
Michael Seal - Conductor Peter Donohoe - Piano Stravinsky Greeting Prelude 1’ Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 14’ Panufnik Piano Concerto 24’ Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan 18’ and Isolde Panufnik Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonia Elegiaca) 24’
Ryan Wigglesworth - Conductor/Piano Sarah Tynan - Soprano Sibelius The Oceanides
10’
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271 (Jeunehomme)
31’
Wigglesworth Augenlieder
16’
Debussy La mer
23’
Mozart composed, directed and performed his own music. So does the remarkable young British musician Ryan Wigglesworth, and the 21-year old Mozart’s lively piano concerto is just one of the delightful waypoints on tonight’s musical voyage of discovery: a concert that begins on Sibelius’s sunlit Mediterranean and ends in Debussy’s storm-tossed English Channel - by way of Wigglesworth’s own, glittering homage to the Romantics.
FREE pre-concert talk - see p44. FREE pre-concert talk - see p44.
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