A Lifetime For Music: Bartók and Rachmaninoff

About the show

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Tom Fetherstonhaugh: Conductor
Alim Beisembayev: Piano

Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is a virtuoso tour de force. Its scale, technical demands and emotional richness are perhaps the ultimate challenge for a pianist to master, but the challenge is worth the prize as the rippling melodies for the soloist are full of melancholy and heart-rending drama.

And if Rachmaninoff’s focus is the soloist, then Bartók’s is the orchestra. His concerto ensures that every instrument gets its chance to shine in a piece that embraces vivid colours, gorgeous tunes and ends with a life-affirming, rabble-rousing burst of sheer joy.

Doors open: 6.30pm approx.
Concert start: 7.45pm
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.