Event Details
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: The Fiddlers Child
Thursday 19th November 2009, 7.00pm
City Halls : Grand Hall
Leading Czech conductor Petr Altrichter, conducts the ebullient Eighth Symphony, the sunniest of Dvorák’s symphonies, full of lilting melodies and infectious, folk dance-inspired rhythms. Australian pianist Piers Lane joins the orchestra in Martinu’s brilliantly jazzy first piano concerto of 1925. Janácek’s evocative ‘ballad’ for orchestra The Fiddler’s Child has a starring role for the orchestra’s distinguished leader Elizabeth Layton.
6.15pm Pre-Concert Prelude (in the Recital Room): Jan Smaczny, Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen’s University Belfast, and a well known authority on Czech music, explores the work of Martinu, Janácek and Dvorák.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the end of the main concert): Piers Lane and Elizabeth Layton perform music by Janácek and Dvorák.
This concert is part of the BBC SSO’s Bohemian Rhapsodies series.
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