Schumann/Robin Holloway/Valentin Silvestrov
19:30
Sat 23 Feb 2019
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Programme
- Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52(17 mins)
- Phaeton’s Journey: Son of the Sun(25 mins)Trumpet concerto - world premiere
- Symphony no. 5(47 mins)
Performers
- John Storgårdsconductor
- HÃ¥kan Hardenbergertrumpet
About This Event
Robin Holloway is one of this country’s finest living composers, a restless and uncategorisable writer of music in a wealth of styles. To celebrate the composer’s 75th birthday, Håkan Hardenberger joins John Storgårds and the orchestra for the world premiere of Holloway’s first trumpet concerto.
The concert opens with a gloriously melodic but little-performed work by Schumann, a longtime favourite of Holloway, and ends with the extraordinary sound-world of Valentin Silvestrov’s Fifth Symphony – luminous, beautiful and utterly transcendent.
