Philharmonia Orchestra: Segerstam performs in Bedford

Concert Search

Use the form below to search for your ideal concert.

Each field in the form is related to each other, so once you have selected your chosen composer you will only be able see other options that are avaliable with that particular composer.

You can use the below fields to search for a concert between two dates. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

You can use the list below to narrow down your search to a particular venue/city. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

If you are interested in hearing a certain composer you can use the list below to find when and where we will be performing their music. Alternatively, you can use our advanced search form.

Segerstam performs in Bedford

Bedford Corn Exchange
Tue 12 Oct 2010 7:30pm

Leif Segerstam

conductor

Alice Sara Ott

piano

Stravinsky

Suite, The Firebird (1919)

Rachmaninov

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Smetana

Má Vlast (exerpts)

This is the Mayor of Bedford’s concert and at the end of the evening there will be a collection for the Mayor’s three chosen charities: Project 65, BeCHaR (Prebend Day Centre), and St John’s Hospice (Sue Ryder Care)

Dancing tunes and jumping rhythms abound in this programme as audience favourite Leif Segerstam opens the Philharmonia’s season at Bedford Corn Exchange. Stravinsky’s music to The Firebird glitters with magical colours describing the fairytale of the magic bird and the heroic prince; meanwhile Rachmaninov takes one of Paganini’s most famous tunes and transforms it in every way imaginable, through dazzling displays of pianistic virtuosity to Variation 18 that swells in the epitome of Romanticism. Finally Smetana’s symphonic poems about his homeland present visions of Czech legends and landscapes, complete with his famous evocation of the River Vltava running from the mountains through the countryside and into the city of Prague.