
15 Oct 2016
Hallé/Sir Mark Elder
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Fantasy Overture ‘Hamlet’ op. 67
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in E minor ‘From the New World’
Here’s a concert that features something of a dream team – one of the world’s oldest and most respected orchestras alongside perhaps the finest young pianist performing today. Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is the perfect vehicle for Benjamin Grosvenor with its athletic, mischievous piano writing. It’s comic, tender, stormy and very difficult to play…
You’ll also hear Sir Mark Elder conduct Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the composer’s beautiful, stirring love letter to the States, rich with the flavours of Native American songs that he picked up during hi stay in New York at the end of the 19th century.
For more information about the music in this concert, and to book tickets, visit www.colstonhall.org/classical