Name: Icons Rediscovered: Elgar’s Symphony No.2
Start: 2024-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southbank Centre

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Vasily Petrenko

Strumento

Yunchan Lim

Pianoforte

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Icons Rediscovered: Elgar’s Symphony No.2

Londra

Regno Unito

Southbank Centre

Royal Festival Hall

Icons Rediscovered: Elgar’s Symphony No.2: The Wreckers Smyth (+2 More)

Public

Private

I Rovinatori

Concerto per pianoforte n. 3 in re minore, op. 30

Sinfonia n. 2 in mi bemolle maggiore, op. 63

Approvato

‘Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight!’ The orchestra hovers, poised. It pulls back – and then surges forward in wave upon sweeping wave of golden sound. Nothing in British music is more exhilarating than the opening of Elgar’s Second Symphony, and nothing quite matches what follows: a passionate, no-holds-barred emotional autobiography, ending in a sunset of heartbreaking beauty.

If that doesn’t sound like your idea of British music, let Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra show you what you’ve been missing. It’s hard to imagine a more magnificent complement to Rachmaninov’s mightiest (and most opulent) piano concerto, played tonight by the 2022 Van Cliburn competition gold medallist Yunchan Lim, and a swashbuckling, storm-swept overture by the Suffragette composer Dame Ethel Smyth.

English

Crediti di rappresentazione (Cast e team di produzione )

Ensemble