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Thursday Series
Sunday Afternoon Classics
Enchanting Tales
Artist in Residence
Thursday 4 April 7.30pm
Mahan Esfahani Harpsichord Concerto
Artist in Residence
Sunday 7 April 2.30pm
Elim Chan conductor Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Post-concert Question Time
Elim Chan © Willeke Machiels
Elim Chan and Mahan Esfahani – see page 93
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Everything old is new again! Stravinsky’s Pulcinella takes 18thcentury music, sprinkles it with humour and drops it headfirst into the Roaring Twenties. Elena KatsChernin (remember the Lloyds TSB advert?) takes tales from the Silk Road, and creates a typically quirky showpiece for our new Artist in Residence Mahan Esfahani. Maurice Ravel, meanwhile, looks back on childhood in his ravishing Mother Goose. Guest conductor Elim Chan’s concerts are nothing if not entertaining – and she finishes this one with more Stravinsky: the highkicking, high-voltage Symphony in Three Movements, written in 1940s Hollywood. Pure showbiz. Tickets £15, £21, £27, £35, £45
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements JC Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E flat Poulenc Concert Champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra Ravel Mother Goose, Suite Elim Chan conductor Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil
Stravinsky Pulcinella, Suite Elena Kats-Chernin Ancient Letters, concerto for amplified harpsichord and orchestra Ravel Mother Goose, Suite Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
Did you know that England once had its very own Bach? Johann Christian was Johann Sebastian’s son, and he’s buried next to St Pancras Station. Our Artist in Residence Mahan Esfahani loves his music, and today he pairs it with Poulenc’s delicious Concert Champêtre to form a delightfully unexpected centre to this concert with Elim Chan – a conductor who says she ‘wants to create magic’. There should be no shortage of that, either in Stravinsky’s flamboyant Symphony in Three Movements (created in Hollywood), or the fairy tale world of Ravel’s exquisite Mother Goose. Tickets £15, £21, £27, £35, £45