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23 Nov 2017, Barbican, London
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season SøndergÃ¥rd conducts Ruders, Shostakovich and Strauss

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Søndergård conducts Ruders, Shostakovich and Strauss
19:30 Thu 23 Nov 2017 Barbican, London
Orchestral virtuosity from Poul Ruders and solo virtuosity from Shostakovich prepare the way for Richard Strauss’s magnificent tone-poem.
Orchestral virtuosity from Poul Ruders and solo virtuosity from Shostakovich prepare the way for Richard Strauss’s magnificent tone-poem.

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Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey may have propelled Strauss’s tone-poem into the stratosphere, but there’s another 35 minutes of glorious orchestral writing to discover once past the shattering evocation of a sunrise. And late-romantic virtuosity is balanced by the witty virtuosity of the programme’s opener, Poul Ruders’ Concerto in Pieces, a Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission from 1995 prompted by the tercentenary of Purcell’s death and the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide (based on a Purcell theme). Ruders writes for the orchestra with astonishing confidence and delight. In between, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra Principal Trumpet Alan Thomas and the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov give us Shostakovich’s sparkling First Piano Concerto from 1933.