Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No 9
Live from Barbican Hall, Alpesh Chauhan conducts the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Plus Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, with soloist Eric Lu, and a new work by Richard Baker.
Anton Bruckner鈥檚 last, unfinished symphony was intended as his great spiritual autobiography. But even from the three movements the composer did finish, we experience intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness. Fate decreed that the symphony would end with music apparently slow enough to stop time itself 鈥� a great transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner鈥檚 epitaph.
Alpesh Chauhan makes his Barbican debut with the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra in this concert culminating in Bruckner鈥檚 enveloping work, preceded by one of Mozart鈥檚 most operatic piano concertos, performed by Eric Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition and current 麻豆社 Radio 3 New Generation Artist.
And how do actor Doris Day, the song 'Whatever will be, will be', and sedatives infuse a piece of music? Find out in the world premiere of Richard Baker's autobiographical new 麻豆社 commission The Price of Curiosity, which launches the evening.
Presented by Martin Handley
Richard Baker: The Price of Curiosity (麻豆社 Commission, World Premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor K466
8.10pm
Interval music chosen by composer Richard Baker
Mary Finsterer: Julian Suite III: Angelus
Ensemble Liaison:
David Griffiths (clarinet)
Svetlana Bogosavljevic (cello)
Timothy Young (piano)
8.30pm
Bruckner: Symphony No.9
Eric Lu (piano)
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
