Music concert featuring works by Ravel, Glazunov & Prokofiev in Exeter's Great Hall.

Programme:

Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Glazunov - Violin Concerto
Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 (revised)

Kirill Karabits - CONDUCTOR
Vadim Gluzman - Violin

The revised Fourth Symphony is half again as long as the original work, written 17 years earlier, turning a modest symphony into a large and imposing score that matched the scale of Prokofiev’s two newly composed symphonies of the mid-1940s. Drawing upon themes and material from his ballet The Prodigal Son, it features big expressive tunes at which Prokofiev excelled, the ardent lyricism giving way to bracing, highly charged music.

A work of immense charm, Glazunov’s Violin Concerto is a gem well worth exploring. Beginning with an atmosphere of restrained melancholy, tempered by sweetness and a warm degree of expressiveness, it reaches a festive finale filled with virtuoso fireworks and sparkling orchestral colour. By contrast Ravel’s timeless suite of fairy-tale miniatures is an exercise of exquisite, restrained grace and innocence.

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Tickets:

Available by phone or in person only from the Exeter Northcott Box Office 01392 493493