Martyn Brabbins at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Martyn Brabbins
Tue 3 Feb 2009, 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Noriko Ogawa piano
| Copland | Appalachian Spring |
|---|---|
| Dai Fujikura | Ampere - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (world première) |
| Stravinsky | Petrushka |
Following the sensational success of Stravinsky’s first ballet The Firebird, Diaghilev persuaded him to write an even more daring and exotic work. The result was the brilliant burlesque score that animates the puppet Petrushka, who in the composer’s words is ‘suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra.’ In this evening’s concert it is performed alongside the world première of a piano concerto by an extraordinary young composing talent, Dai Fujikura, whose music ‘speaks in a series of uncannily sharp images, floating in a pulseless musical space, held together by a riveting intuitive logic’.
Read an interview with Dai Fujikura about his new Piano Concerto.
Read Martyn Brabbins's biography.
Read Noriko Ogawa's biography.
Tickets: £45 £38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8
Martyn Brabbins
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