Afternoon Performance: Brahms' Violin Concerto
14:00
Thu 30 Jan 2025
Glasgow City Halls
"The remarkable soloist Ning Feng, his tone so sweet and pure, believed in every note, and as a result so did we鈥 wrote The Times, after a performance of Brahms鈥檚 Violin Concerto by this phenomenal Chinese violinist 鈥 and after all, it takes a special kind of soloist to do justice to this noblest of the great Romantic violin concertos. This should be something special, and conductor Antony Hermus has devised a whole concert charged with wonder. Cinderella flees at midnight, and in Prokofiev鈥檚 shimmering ballet score, you鈥檒l hear every chime, every magic spell, and every loving glance. Dutch composer Joey Roukens lights the touchpaper with a riotous nocturnal rollercoaster ride through a city of dreams.