Name: Afternoon Performance: Prokofiev Romeo And Juliet
Start: 2019-12-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-12-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Conductor

Alpesh Chauhan

Afternoon Performance: Prokofiev Romeo And Juliet

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

Concerto in E flat major, Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38

Romeo and Juliet

Jnanakumar P

Approved

“There cannot be the slightest doubt that in Alpesh Chauhan, the BBC SSO has a real find on its hands”, wrote ‘The Herald’ when this young British conductor made his BBC SSO debut in 2015, and Chauhan’s imaginatively-conceived programmes and powerful, emotionally charged performances have been among the highlights of recent seasons. In this concert, he places three masterpieces of the 1930s in revelatory counterpoint. The ‘Sinfonia da Requiem’ might just be the rawest music Britten ever wrote; an outpouring of personal grief that somehow grows into a furious warning to a world on the brink of the Second World War. Prokofiev’s ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ remakes Shakespeare in the iron and steel of Stalin’s USSR – yet somehow gets closer than any other version to the story’s tender heart. And Stravinsky reinvents Bach for the Art Deco era, in a chamber concerto that positively buzzes with wit.

English

Afternoon Performance: Prokofiev Romeo And Juliet by Britten, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ó (2019/2019), Seoltóir Alpesh Chauhan, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid