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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Music by Ravel, Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns
Part of the Leeds International Concert Season 2017/18
Add to my Calendar 21-04-2018 19:30 21-04-2018 21:30 36 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The orchestra thunders and roars, everyone’s silent, and then with one mighty chord, the Town Hall organ blows the roof off. However well you know Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony, experiencing it live in concert never gets any less exciting. The composer himself said of his third Symphony, “I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again”. The evening also features Boris Giltburg in Prokofiev’s high-octane Piano Concerto No 3 – the most popular of his five piano concertos, and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite as a playful and upbeat opener. Leeds Town Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Leeds Town Hall
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AD
England
Programme
Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose suite
Sergey Prokofiev – Piano Concerto no.3 in C major, Op.26
Camille Saint-Saens – Symphony no.3 in C minor 'Organ', Op.78
Performers
Harish Shankar – Conductor
Boris Giltburg – piano
Darius Battiwalla – organ
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
The orchestra thunders and roars, everyone’s silent, and then with one mighty chord, the Town Hall organ blows the roof off. However well you know Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony, experiencing it live in concert never gets any less exciting. The composer himself said of his third Symphony, “I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again”.
The evening also features Boris Giltburg in Prokofiev’s high-octane Piano Concerto No 3 – the most popular of his five piano concertos, and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite as a playful and upbeat opener.
