Organization

Admin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Conductor

Hannu Lintu

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Alexander Malofeev

Piano

Fireworks and Fantasies

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Fireworks and Fantasies: Symphonic Fantasy Rands, B. (+3 More)

Public

Symphonic Fantasy

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Le chant du rossignol

Slonimsky's Earbox

Ayyappa swamy y

Approved

Alexander Malofeev plays Prokofiev, and Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in colourful showpieces by Adams and Stravinsky – plus a Bernard Rands world premiere.

It's all about colour, as three master-entertainers put on a show. The young Prokofiev dazzles the crowds in jazz-age Europe; Stravinsky’s nightingale spins a fabulous song and John Adams makes supercharged mischief with the most basic elements of western music. First, though, a major new statement from a living master: the world premiere of Bernard Rands’s Symphonic Fantasy.

Coming from an artist of Rands’s stature, that’d be enough in itself to make this concert a special occasion: a powerful tribute to Sibelius from a composer with a voice that’s entirely his own. That calls for sonic fireworks: and with the phenomenal Alexander Malofeev at the piano, and conductor Hannu Lintu making a very welcome return, Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto should light up the sky.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble