BBC NOW 2016-17 Season Scheherazade by Britten, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Alkaen (2017/2017), Musiikinjohto Xian Zhang, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, United Kingdom

We welcome conductor Xian Zhang for her first concert in Swansea as our Principal Guest Conductor. Scheherazade, based on the story The Arabian Nights, is a dazzlingly colourful work full of rhythmic vitality and flavours of the Orient: Coupled with Benjamin Britten’s electrifyingly depictive Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes; and Shostakovich’s heroic, playful and spirited Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String. This concert promises to take you on a journey across stormy oceans to the opulence of the East.