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BBC SSO 2023/24: Thursday Night Series - Hough Plays Rachmaninov

Pianist Sir Stephen Hough returns to City Halls for Rachmaninov's hugely-popular 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' under the baton of Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth!

BBC SSO 2023/24: Thursday Night Series - Hough Plays Rachmaninov

About BBC SSO 2023/24: Thursday Night Series - Hough Plays Rachmaninov

“My heartfelt homage to Tchaikovsky’s wonderful talent”. Audiences in the 1920s were astonished when the modernist firebrand Stravinsky started adapting Tchaikovsky. In fact, Stravinsky adored Tchaikovsky’s music, and his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss puts Tchaikovsky’s music under a very modern – but utterly captivating – spell. But then, under the baton of our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, there’s wonder in every note of this ravishing concert. You’d expect no less, when the phenomenal pianist Stephen Hough works his very personal alchemy on Rachmaninov’s hugely-popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. But the music of Hans Abrahamsen’s fairy-tale opera The Snow Queen might be a little less familiar. Believe us – it’s pure enchantment.

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