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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Barbican Season 2023-24 Fireworks and Fantasies

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Fireworks and Fantasies
19:30 Fri 16 Feb 2024 Barbican, London
Alexander Malofeev plays Prokofiev, and Hannu Lintu conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in colourful showpieces by Adams and Stravinsky – plus a Bernard Rands world premiere.
Alexander Malofeev plays Prokofiev, and Hannu Lintu conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in colourful showpieces by Adams and Stravinsky – plus a Bernard Rands world premiere.

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Alexander Malofeev plays Prokofiev, and Hannu Lintu conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in colourful showpieces by Adams and Stravinsky – plus a Bernard Rands world premiere.

It's all about colour, as three master-entertainers put on a show. The young Prokofiev dazzles the crowds in jazz-age Europe; Stravinsky’s nightingale spins a fabulous song and John Adams makes supercharged mischief with the most basic elements of western music. First, though, a major new statement from a living master: the world premiere of Bernard Rands’s Symphonic Fantasy.

Coming from an artist of Rands’s stature, that’d be enough in itself to make this concert a special occasion: a powerful tribute to Sibelius from a composer with a voice that’s entirely his own. That calls for sonic fireworks: and with the phenomenal Alexander Malofeev at the piano, and conductor Hannu Lintu making a very welcome return, Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto should light up the sky.

Tickets on general sale from 29 September.