Fly North for Winter
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This event took place on Friday 11 October 2019.
- Friday 11 October 2019
- Wycombe Swan
Fly North for Winter
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Wycombe Swan
Need to know
Repertoire
- Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No.1
- Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2
- Sibelius Symphony No.2
Features
- Antony Hermus Conductor
- Roman Kosyakov Piano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Wycombe Swan
WHO’S ON STAGE
Conductor Antony Hermus is the Principal Guest Conductor of Opera North and the perfect tour guide for this musical flight through the Nordic countries! Pianist Roman Kosyakov is the 2018 winner of the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition .
WHAT TO EXPECT
The show opens with Grieg’s Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, packed full of lush melodies and teasing suspenseful themes that build up to the ever-popular In the Hall of the Mountain King which audiences will instantly recognise from the Alton Towers adverts!
Then follows Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, the haunting theme to the classic film Brief Encounter.
The concert closes with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, the iconic Nordic Symphony that includes an ominous passage of plucked basses and cellos at the start of the second movement and a theatrical final movement with traditional folksong elements woven in.