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Armenian State Symphony Orchestra
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra's concert tour in the United Kingdom, in honour of the 120th anniversary of Aram Khachaturian, is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Armenia to the UK.
Add to my Calendar 22-02-2023 19:00 22-02-2023 21:00 36 Armenian State Symphony Orchestra We’re delighted to open our Spring season of International Orchestral Concerts with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. It is indeed appropriate that we should start the programme with their nation’s greatest composer, Aram Khachaturian, with music from his most popular work, the ballet Spartacus. The Adagio from this suite became extraordinarily popular after it was famously used as the theme music in the BBC’s drama The Onedin Line. We are very pleased to welcome back as our first soloist of the season our old friend the violinist Chloe Hanslip, who has been performing regularly at Fairfield Halls since the age of 12, with a performance of Mendelssohn’s effervescent Violin Concerto. In the second half, the orchestra’s music director - the renowned Sergey Smbatyan - will conduct Tchaikovsky’s epic Fourth Symphony which he wrote soon after his disastrous, short marriage, a crisis that inspired him to write this highly dramatic work with its famous fate motif. Ashcroft Theatre - Fairfield Halls, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Ashcroft Theatre - Fairfield Halls
Park Lane
Croydon
London
CR9 1DG
England
Programme
Aram Khachaturian – Spartacus, ballet
Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
~ Interval ~
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.4, Op.36
Performers
Chloë Hanslip – violin
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
We’re delighted to open our Spring season of International Orchestral Concerts with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. It is indeed appropriate that we should start the programme with their nation’s greatest composer, Aram Khachaturian, with music from his most popular work, the ballet Spartacus. The Adagio from this suite became extraordinarily popular after it was famously used as the theme music in the BBC’s drama The Onedin Line.
We are very pleased to welcome back as our first soloist of the season our old friend the violinist Chloe Hanslip, who has been performing regularly at Fairfield Halls since the age of 12, with a performance of Mendelssohn’s effervescent Violin Concerto. In the second half, the orchestra’s music director - the renowned Sergey Smbatyan - will conduct Tchaikovsky’s epic Fourth Symphony which he wrote soon after his disastrous, short marriage, a crisis that inspired him to write this highly dramatic work with its famous fate motif.
