BBC Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Bringuier / Clare Hammond
On March 11, 2023, the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall will host a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lionel Bringuier. The programme for the evening will include compositions by George Gershwin, Sergey Rachmaninov, Albert Roussel, and Maurice Ravel, with Clare Hammond as the featured piano soloist.
The concert will begin with George Gershwin's "An American in Paris," a tone poem that portrays the lively and bustling atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s. Following this, the orchestra will perform Sergey Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," a set of variations for piano and orchestra that showcases the virtuosity of the soloist.
Next on the programme is Albert Roussel's "Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17," a ballet score that tells the story of a spider's feast. The final piece of the evening will be Maurice Ravel's "La valse," a waltz for orchestra that was originally conceived as a tribute to the Viennese waltz tradition.