Philharmonia Orchestra: Gardner conducts in London

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Gardner conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Sun 17 Feb 2013 7:00pm

conductor

piano

soprano

mezzo-soprano

tenor

CBSO Chorus

CBSO Youth Chorus & Children's Chorus

Bridge

Suite, The Sea

Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2

Britten

Spring Symphony

An early start tonight for a generous programme that brings together three composers who powerfully influenced one another. Britten, whose centenary we are celebrating this year, was a composer prodigy so gifted that he began lessons with Frank Bridge at the tender age of 14. His Spring Symphony is an early masterpiece, a setting of fourteen poems evoking the progress of winter to spring and the onset of summer. Later in life Britten fell under the spell of Gustav Mahler, as did his near contemporary and close friend, Dmitry Shostakovich. All cares are banished, however, in tonight's concert, especially in Shostakovich's exuberant Second Piano Concerto, in which the humble five-finger exercise meets Rachmaninov head-on.

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