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Conductor Ben Gernon joins the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic to bring us into the new year as we begin the second half of our 2022-23 season. The concert opens with an atmospheric picture of dawn over Moscow in Shostakovich's orchestration of the Prelude to Act I of Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina. Alban Gerhardt deftly weaves his way through Anna Clyne’s masterful DANCE, a five-movement folkish foray into the timelessly lyrical lines of Persian poet Rumi. Brimming with both complexity and personality, Clyne’s concerto whets our appetite for Rachmaninov’s full-blooded Second Symphony – here lush melody and symphonic depth flow from one of Russia’s most Romantic souls.

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Pre-concert performance, Foyer Bar, 6.30pm

Ahead of the concert, Royal Northern College of Music student, Cristo Harjan is performing in the Foyer Bar. Cristo Harijan is a 21 year old pianist currently studying under Murray Mclachlan at the Royal Northern College of Music. Cristo was born in upstate New York, and first started learning piano at the age of 9. After moving to the UK in 2012 he was self-taught until 2014 when he began studying at The Sage Gateshead in the young musicians programme with Nick Butters.

Cristo Harijan appears by kind permission of the RNCM.

FRANZ LISZT
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Etudes Tableaux Op 39
v. Appassionato
vi. Allegro

FRANZ LISZT
Sonata in B minor S 178