11 Jun 2022, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
BBC Philharmonic 2021-22 Season BBC Philharmonic | 11 June
BBC Philharmonic | 11 June
The final concert of our 21/22 season features music from Price, Gershwin and Shostakovich with conductor Kerem Hasan and pianist Xiayin Wang
The final concert of our 21/22 season features music from Price, Gershwin and Shostakovich with conductor Kerem Hasan and pianist Xiayin Wang
Concert Information
Kerem Hasan takes up the baton for our final concert of the season. us as he takes us through the American Midwest with The Oak, a richly orchestrated, vibrant tone poem by Florence Price, one of the United States’ greatest forgotten symphonists. Then it’s over to the East Coast for a rhapsodic romp with Xiayin Wang as she tows the line between silky and symphonic in Concerto in F, a piano concerto by America’s defining composer. Finally, we’ll be crossing the Atlantic to explore Shostakovich’s ever-complicated feelings towards life and the Soviet Union – displayed for all to see in this most complex and surely most poetic of symphonies, Symphony No. 10 is chock-full of drama, lyricism and Shostakovich's uniquely sardonic wit.