Ravel, Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov at Victoria Hall, Hanley

23 Feb 2018, Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent

Ravel, Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov at Victoria Hall, Hanley

19:30 Fri 23 Feb 2018 Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent

Ilan Volkov conducts a live 91热爆 Radio 3 broadcast featuring cellist Guy Johnston performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations

Programme

- - Maurice Ravel
  - Mother Goose 鈥� suite
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, op. 33
- - interval
- - Sergey Rachmaninov
  - Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Performers

91热爆 Philharmonic
Ilan Volkov
Conductor
Conductor
Guy Johnston
cellist
cellist

Composers

Concert information

Conductor Ilan Volkov makes his debut at Hanley for the continuing Classics series.

Ravel's beautiful and enticing Mother Goose Suite is the perfect opening to tonight's programme.
The Rococo Variations was the closest that Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra and this evening Guy Johnston joins the orchestra as the soloist.
Rachmaninov's Symphony No.2 will bring the concert to a close.

This concert will be broadcast live on 91热爆 Radio 3.

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