Name: Scheherazade
Start: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Cadogan Hall

Organization

Instrumentalist

Martin James Bartlett

Piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Conductor

Charlotte Corderoy

Scheherazade

London

United Kingdom

Cadogan Hall

Public

Private

The Enchanted Lake, Op.62

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

Scheherazade Op. 35

Approved

Tales of a thousand nights: Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. 

Once upon a time...  

Composers have always told stories: an enchanted lake ripples in the moonlight, hinting at tales untold; four horns throw down a challenge; a piano strides forward into combat, and, in Imperial Russia, Rimsky-Korsakov retells the One Thousand and One Nights stories through music of dazzling colour and unforgettable melody.

There’s a good reason why Scheherazade is so popular, and conductor Ben Glassberg will relish every note.

Martin James Bartlett, meanwhile, is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s epic First Piano Concerto – since his triumph in the 2014 BBC Young Musician competition, critics have declared him “not only a prodigy of the piano, but an accomplished artist who counts among the greats of his generation”. So, if you’re sitting comfortably…

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble