Name: Santtu and Seong-Jin Cho
Start: 2023-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Instrumentalist

Seong-Jin Cho

Piano

Jason Evans

Trumpet

Southbank Centre

Philharmonia Orchestra

Santtu and Seong-Jin Cho

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

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Symphony No.6

Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, op. 35

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54

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South Bank Centre

Award-winning pianist Seong-Jin Cho joins us in Shostakovich’s most playful concerto.

Cho has gone from strength to strength since winning the International Chopin Competition in 2015. Performing with the Philharmonia at last year’s Edinburgh International Festival, he won praise for his ‘breathtaking nimbleness’ (The Scotsman). And nimbleness is exactly what’s needed for Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, which fizzes with energy and humour.

Our Finnish Principal Conductor Santtu opens with Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony. Sibelius himself described it as ‘pure cold water’, in contrast to the ‘cocktails of every hue’ served up by more avant garde composers in the 1920s. But there’s plenty of warmth and cheerfulness in this symphony too.

Shostakovich said he wanted his Sixth Symphony to convey ‘the moods of spring, joy, youth’. Perhaps he was thinking of the mood swings of adolescence – an introspective first movement gives way to a colourful and carefree Scherzo, then a frenzied finale.

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Santtu and Seong-Jin Cho by Sibelius, Shostakovich, Noiztik (2023/2023), Zuzendaria Santtu-Matias Rouvali, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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