Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: £47.50 - £28
Students / Under 26s: £15.50
Pre-Concert Talk
Helen Martin Studio, 1.45pm
Tickets: £6 (£4 for Orchestral Ticket Package bookers)
Programme
SMETANA Overture - The Bartered Bride
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2
PIAZZOLLA Libertango
DVORAK Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88
Conductor: Steven Mercurio
Piano: Mark Bebbington
Lauded British pianist Mark Bebbington joins the popular Czech ensemble for Rachmaninov's enduring Second Piano Concerto.
Renowned for its subsequent inclusion in classic weepie Brief Encounter, it famously lifted the composer's spirits after an earlier failure and is regularly voted the greatest piece of classical music ever written by Classic FM listeners.
Also on the programme are Astor Piazzolla's tantilising and sultry Libertango and works by two Czech giants: Bedřich Smetana's high-spirited and sparkling Overture, taken from his second opera; and Antonín Dvořák's euphoric Eighth, one of his greatest symphonies, which swiftly moves from sombre roots towards a rousing finale.
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