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Ode to Spring

Worthing Symphony Orchestra

Part of the Worthing Symphony Orchestra 2015-16 Season

Add to my Calendar 06-03-2016 14:45 06-03-2016 16:45 36 Ode to Spring Acclaimed Turkish Pianist Idil Biret performs two great piano works often neglected in the concert hall: Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations and Chopin's Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, known as the haunting music in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Schumann's Spring Symphony is a genial, energetic and attractive work bursting with high spirits and melodic inspiration. It is followed by Edmund Rubbra’s unjustly neglected beautiful Fourth Symphony. Rubbra is one of Britain's best but rarely performed composers of the mid-twentieth century. The Assembly Hall, Worthing DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Assembly Hall
Stoke Abbott Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HQ
England

Programme

Robert Schumann – Symphony no.1 'Spring', Op.38
Edmund Rubbra – Symphony No 4, Op. 52 (1942)
Cesar Franck – Variations symphoniques
Frédéric Chopin – Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, Op.22

Performers

Idil Biret – piano
John Gibbons – Conductor

Worthing Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Acclaimed Turkish Pianist Idil Biret performs two great piano works often neglected in the concert hall: Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations and Chopin's Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, known as the haunting music in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Schumann's Spring Symphony is a genial, energetic and attractive work bursting with high spirits and melodic inspiration. It is followed by Edmund Rubbra’s unjustly neglected beautiful Fourth Symphony. Rubbra is one of Britain's best but rarely performed composers of the mid-twentieth century.

Idil Biret (piano)

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