SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
Thursday 20th March, 7.30pm, Hall One
“ Biss never does anything just for effect, and everything here had a point and musical purpose. He has few peers as a Schumann pianist today.”
The Guardian on Jonathan Biss
It was Schumann’ s unflinching love for his pianist wife Clara that spawned the
Jonathan Biss
Piano Concerto
– a love letter in music that offers a touching insight into one of the most famously passionate romances of the nineteenth century. Joshua Weilerstein also conducts Ligeti’ s flavoursome‘ Concert Romanesc’ and Mendelssohn’ s most inspired symphony – the free-flowing, rugged forty minutes of musical brilliance that is his‘ Scottish’.
With a post-concert‘ Northern Sinfonia Spotlight’
Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £ 10- £ 33
Supported by the Vardy Foundation
Ligeti Concert Romanesc
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor,‘ Scottish’
Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein
Piano: Jonathan Biss Northern Sinfonia
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