Myths & Magic: Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns

Borodin Overture: Prince Igor
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Fauré Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945 version)

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń: Conuctor
Laura Van Der Heijden: Cello

The fanfares of Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor herald both the start of the Orchestra’s new Season and a programme packed with classic tales of mythical gardens with mysterious residents, heroism, love thwarted and fulfilled, a treacherous ogre, beautiful princesses, brave princes and a magical bird with opulent feathers that will save the day.

Saint-Saëns’s beautiful Cello Concerto No. 1 is a piece that swirls and ripples around a delicate, music-box style minuet, before building to a pyrotechnic conclusion – the perfect counterpart to the brilliant, technicolour feathers of Stravinsky’s Firebird.

Doors open: 6.30pm approx.
Pre-concert talk: 7.00pm
Concert start: 7.45pm
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.