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Details

Bridgewater Hall
Lower Mosley Street
Manchester
M2 3WS
England

Programme

Arturo Márquez – Danzon no.2
Gabriela Ortiz – Dzonot
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Op.35

Performers

Marin Alsop – Conductor
Alisa Weilerstein – cello

Philharmonia Orchestra

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Programme Note

Alisa Weilerstein joins Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia for an outstanding new work by one of the world’s leading composers. 

The first cello concerto by Grammy-winning composer Gabriela Ortiz is inspired by the extraordinary landscape of the Yucatán Peninsula in southern Mexico. Ortiz wrote it for ICS favourite Alisa Weilerstein – and she’ll be performing it herself in its Manchester premiere.

We begin in Ortiz’s native country with Arturo Márquez’s exhilarating Danzón No.2. And then we’re hurtling across the Atlantic for Rimsky-Korsakov’s vibrant musical retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. 

Philharmonia Orchestra

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