Name: Richard Strauss Don Quixote
Start: 2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Ilan Volkov

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Narek Hakhnazaryan

Cello

Richard Strauss Don Quixote

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

Eine Kleine Sonnenmusik

‘Chout’ Suite, Op.21b

Don Quixote

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Old Don Quixote reads so many tales of knights and chivalry that he starts to believe he’s living in one himself. So, dressed in rusty armour, he ventures forth into a world where windmills become giants, a flock of sheep looks like an army, and a wooden horse can soar through the sky. Richard Strauss has a good laugh at the daft old Knight of the Doleful Countenance, but he sympathises too, and this gorgeously colourful, outrageously entertaining tone poem contains some of the most personal music he ever wrote: a warm-hearted tribute to literature’s greatest dreamer. The extrovert Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan (a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist) is our Man of La Mancha today. With typical imagination, BBC SSO Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov has paired it with a surreal homage to Mozart from Myriam Marbe, a Romanian dissident, and Prokofiev’s sardonic, steel-toothed ballet ‘The Tale of the Buffoon’ – written for the fabled Ballets Russes by an angry young man at the merciless peak of his talents.

Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room (free to ticket-holders, subject to seating availability): Jane Pritchard, Dance Curator at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, introduces some of the cultural background to Prokofiev’s relationship with the Ballets Russes.

The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 - the presenter is Kate Molleson. It will then be available to stream or download for 30 days via 'BBC Sounds', where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.

English

Richard Strauss Don Quixote by Marbe, Prokofiev, Strauss, From (2019/2019), Conductor Ilan Volkov, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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