Inspiration with every note
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Friday 12 October, 7.30pm
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 19, K459
28’
Mahler Symphony No. 5
68’
Juanjo Mena Steven Osborne
Saturday 27 October, 7.30pm
Sibelius
Conductor Piano
The Wood Nymph
'A symphony must be like the world', declared Gustav Mahler. 'It must embrace everything!' His tremendous Fifth Symphony does exactly that: from winter storms to roof-raising triumph. At the heart of it all is the exquisite Adagietto, Mahler’s impassioned love letter to his young wife. It is a musical experience to touch the heart and shake the soul. When Juanjo and the BBC Philharmonic performed Mahler’s 'Resurrection' Symphony last year, The Times wrote that 'the BBC Philharmonic... reached true glory in the finale, brilliantly navigated by Mena.' The timeless grace of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 completes the programme, performed by one of Britain’s foremost pianists, Steven Osborne.
26’
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
38’
Nielsen Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’
27’
John Storgårds Martin Roscoe
Conductor Piano
Carl Nielsen lived life to the full and his Second Symphony is certainly testament to that: it is a red-blooded picture of human nature seen from all sides, bursting with great tunes and the brisk, sunlit freshness of a spring morning in the Danish countryside. It is the exuberant finale to a concert that begins with Sibelius’s magical saga of the Finnish forests and features pianist Martin Roscoe in Beethoven’s mighty 'Emperor' Concerto. Energy, fantasy and untamed inspiration.
Post-Concert Performance Martin Roscoe performs Beethoven piano sonatas in the main auditorium.
Saturday 3 November, 7.30pm
Verdi The Sicilian Vespers – 9’ overture
Piano Concertos 15’& 24’ Nos. 1 and 4
Casella
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John Bradbury Principal Clarinet
Conductor Piano
Preview 6.30pm Gianandrea Noseda in conversation with the BBC Philharmonic’s General Manager, Richard Wigley.
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 3
Gianandrea Noseda Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
44’
Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet makes his Bridgewater Hall debut to get under the skin of Prokofiev’s ferocious piano concertos. Tonight he performs not just the youthful First Concerto, but the sensational Fourth too, written to be played with just the left hand. Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda begins the evening with Verdi’s melodramatic overture before introducing a real undiscovered treasure. Imagine Puccini, Mahler and Prokofiev thrown together with a twist of Italian zest and you’ll realise why we’re so excited to share Casella’s Third Symphony with you.
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