Garry Walker, conductor Daniel de Borah, piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme
:
Jean Sibelius
1:
Suite from 'Pelleas and Melisande', Op 46
Ludwig van Beethoven
2:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 4 in G, Op 58
Antonín Dvorák
3:
Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70
Note:
Included within the potent music that Sibelius composed for the play Pelléas et Mélisande is At the Castle Gate, the signature tune for Patrick Moore’s long-running BBC television series, The Sky at Night. Both tonight’s piano concerto and symphony are masterpieces in their respective genres; Beethoven’s poetic, searching and light-hearted concerto providing the perfect contrast to Dvorak’s impassioned, and arguably greatest symphony, brimful with lyricism and emotion, and imbued with Bohemian traits of song and dance.