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Brighton Dome Concert Hall
Church Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 1UD
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto in F minor for keyboard and strings, BWV 1056
Astor Piazzolla – Libertango
Astor Piazzolla – Milonga del Angel
Astor Piazzolla – Michelangelo '70
Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion
Bernard Herrmann – Psycho: Orchestral Suite
Valentin Silvestrov – Silent Music for Strings
Alfred Schnittke – Concerto for piano and string orchestra
Alfred Schnittke – Tango in a Madhouse
Performers
Joanna MacGregor – Conductor / piano
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Madness, mayhem and tango entwine in a cinematic concert of light and shade. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho caused audiences to faint with horror. Bernard Herrmann arranged his unforgettable score to the film – particularly that shower scene – into an orchestral suite, and here it’s matched with another composer who wrote over sixty film scores, Alfred Schnittke.
Schnittke’s brilliantly cinematic piano concerto, a series of short wild scenes culminating in a massive cadenza, is prefaced by Tango in a Madhouse: his bittersweet tango, written as an allegory of oppression under the Soviet Union.
The psychological darkness of the programme is balanced with Bach’s celestial dance, his F minor keyboard concerto, and Ukraine’s most famous living composer Valentin Silvestrov, whose Silent Music for Strings breathes with delicate yearning and nostalgia. The dark and dangerous heart of Piazzolla, in Joanna MacGregor’s blistering tango arrangements, ends the evening with Buenos Aires panache
