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27 May 2022, Barbican, London
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2021-22 Season Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov

Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov
Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov
19:30 Fri 27 May 2022 Barbican, London
Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.
Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.

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In his most famous work, Sergei Rachmaninov pits piano against orchestra in a witty, bolshie and wickedly entertaining dual. Who wins? Find out as Stephen Hough takes on this remarkable piece.

Anton Bruckner’s last, unfinished symphony was intended as his great spiritual autobiography. Even from the three movements the composer did finish, we experience intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness. Fate decreed that the symphony would end with music apparently slow enough to stop time itself – a great, transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner’s epitaph.

To begin Alphesh Chauhan’s Barbican debut, we premiere Richard Baker’s orchestral reimagining of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much.