Taibhithe & Agallaimh
Programme
- What Did We See? (orchestral suite from 'Between Worlds')Ö÷²¥´óÐã commission: world premiere
- Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’(38 nóim)
- interval
- Symphony No. 2 in D major(42 nóim)
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- Paul Lewispiano
- Ben Gernonconductor
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About This Event
Life is celebrated and loss mourned in music spanning over 200 years. The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Philharmonic and its Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon pair Beethoven’s majestic final piano concerto – for which we welcome back Paul Lewis, who played all five Beethoven piano concertos in the 2010 season – with Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony, whose lyrical, pastoral spirit harks back to the earlier composer’s own ‘Pastoral’ Symphony (No. 6).
The concert opens in a more sombre, contemplative mood with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s What Did We See? – a meditation on death, healing and transcendence that builds on material from the composer’s recent 9/11-inspired opera Between Worlds.
Broadcast on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four on Sunday 5 August
Image: Ben Gernon © Simon Annand