Sheherazade, based on the story The Arabian Nights, is a dazzlingly colourful work full of rhythmic vitality and flavours of the Orient.
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra no.1 in C minor, op. 35
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Xian Zhang – Conductor
Peter Donohoe – Piano
Philippe Schartz – Trumpet
We welcome conductor Xian Zhang for her first concert in Swansea as our Principal Guest Conductor.
Sheherazade, based on the story The Arabian Nights, is a dazzlingly colourful work full of rhythmic vitality and flavours of the Orient: Coupled with Benjamin Britten’s electrifyingly depictive Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes; and Shostakovich’s heroic, playful and spirited Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String. This concert promises to take you on a journey across stormy oceans to the opulence of the East.
Event Starts 7.30pm
