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Spotlight Series at Home: Brass & Percussion

Thursday 1 July 2021, 7.30pm
RPO YouTube Channel

COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
PROKOFIEV (arr. Simon Cox) Suite for Brass Septet
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Simon Wright Conductor

Brass & Percussion of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Brilliance and majesty are in abundance in a glorious programme that shines a spotlight on the brass and percussion sections of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Resident Orchestra at London's Cadogan Hall. Copland’s ever-popular Fanfare for the Common Man provides a blazing start to this streaming concert, followed in true regal style with Handel’s jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks, commissioned by King George II to accompany a firework display on the River Thames.

Prokofiev’s Suite for Brass Septet, originally written for piano, is a set of miniatures that opens with a bold and brash March, before moving to the Gavotte that dances with a stately melody. The concert concludes with a special arrangement of Mussorgsky’s colourful Pictures at an Exhibition, a musical gallery tour concluding with the grand Great Gate of Kiev.

Watch Principal Bass Trombone introduce the concert below.

Ticket information

Streaming on the RPO's YouTube channel from Thursday 17 June, 7.30pm until 1 July. Follow this link to watch free of charge.