Mozart/Mark Simpson/Mahler
19:30
Sat 15 Jun 2019
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Programme
- Idomeneo (Overture)(24 mins)Three arias and march
- Clarinet Concerto(20 mins)world premiere
- Symphony No. 4 in G major(56 mins)
Performers
- Ben Gernonconductor
- Mark Simpsonclarinet
- Elizabeth Wattssoprano
Concert information
The prodigiously talented Mark Simpson is the only person to have won both the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Young Musician and Â鶹ԼÅÄ Young Composer of the Year awards. Tonight, both of Simpson’s parallel musical lives are on show, as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic’s Composer in Association gives the world premiere of his own Clarinet Concerto.
Tonight’s other soloist, leading British soprano Elizabeth Watts, is on double duty: tackling three Mozart arias to open the programme, then returning to end the season with Mahler’s soulful but uplifting Fourth Symphony.
