BBC SSO 2024-25 Season Afternoon Performance: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - BBC

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18 May 2025, Glasgow City Halls

14:00 Sun 18 May 2025 Next Event

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Performance: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 & Mahler 1

14:00 Sun 18 May 2025 Glasgow City Halls

Orchestra challenges, piano responds with Tchaikovsky's grand tune. Seabirds soar in Pacific skies. A young artist embarks on a lifelong voyage, narrated by BBC SSO and conductor Tito Muñoz. Pianist Alim Beisembayev, a luminous talent, is the soloist.

Orchestra challenges, piano responds with Tchaikovsky's grand tune. Seabirds soar in Pacific skies. A young artist embarks on a lifelong voyage, narrated by BBC SSO and conductor Tito Muñoz. Pianist Alim Beisembayev, a luminous talent, is the soloist.

Programme

- - Gabriella Smith
  - Tumblebird Contrails(12 mins)
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor(38 mins)
- - interval
- - Gustav Mahler
  - Symphony No. 1 in D major(56 mins)

Performers

Composers

About this Concert

The orchestra throws down a challenge, and the piano strides forward with one of the grandest tunes Tchaikovsky ever wrote. Seabirds wheel and soar, and jet-streams trace fabulous patterns across the blue Pacific sky. And in the silence of dawn, a young artist walks out on a lifelong voyage: a tale of struggle and joy, turmoil and triumph. Three very different composers, and three different openings – but each one is just the start of an adventure, told today by the BBC SSO and conductor Tito Muñoz, who created such a buzz at City Halls in 2022. Pianist Alim Beisembayev is the soloist; this 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner has been described as “positively luminous”.

This concert ends at approximately 4:10 pm

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BBC SSO 2024-25 Season BBC SSO Afternoon Performances 2024/25 BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2024/25

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Mahler: Symphony No. 1

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