Simon Trpčeski plays Grieg
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This event took place on Friday 24 October 2025.
- Friday 24 October 2025
- Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Simon Trpčeski plays Grieg
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Need to know
Repertoire
- Nielsen Maskarade: Overture
- Grieg Piano Concerto
- Sibelius Symphony No.2
Features
- Vasily Petrenko Conductor
- Simon Trpčeski Piano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Theatre Royal, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham NG1 5ND
Carl Nielsen’s bustling overture to his 1904 opera, Maskarade, launches this Nordic programme from the acclaimed partnership of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, joined here by regular collaborator, Simon Trpčeski, for Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto. Composed when he was just 25, it’s an astonishingly accomplished blend of personal style with national musical identity, mixing Norwegian folk idioms with youthful solo writing that’s both brilliant and warmly lyrical.
Sibelius’s name is synonymous with starkly beautiful Nordic landscapes but he loved Italy and it was whilst enjoying a sun-drenched stay in the seaside town of Rapallo in 1901 that he first began his Second Symphony. He struggled to complete the work and revised it several times, but the finished article quickly enjoyed success in Finland and has since become his most popular symphony worldwide. His last major Romantic work, it’s driven by a heroic sense of purpose, its sinewy themes and steely climaxes leading to a glorious, hymn-like conclusion.
Free pre-concert talk at 6.20pm in the auditorium: Dr Sophie Redfern introduces Sibelius’s Second Symphony