Stravinsky's The Firebird in Aberdeen
19:30
Fri 14 Mar 2025
Music Hall, Aberdeen
Programme
- Triple Concerto for Tabla, Sitar and Bansuri(28 mins)
- interval
- The Isle of the Dead(20 mins)
- The Firebird 鈥� suite (revised version, 1919)(23 mins)
Performers
- Zakir Hussaintabla
- Niladri Kumarsitar
- Rakesh Chaurasiabansuri
- Alpesh Chauhanconductor
Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic, conjured by Indian musical royalty.
When different musical cultures meet, a new kind of harmony is born. 鈥淢esmerising鈥� was how one critic described the new Triple Concerto by Zakir Hussain when Alpesh Chauhan conducted its first British performances in 2023, and today the composer himself is among the soloists in a piece which, he says, tells a tale of love, tradition and the transforming power of art. It鈥檚 perfect for Chauhan, a conductor with a real flair for finding the heart and soul of a piece of music, and he follows it with two dark fairytales from Romantic Russia 鈥� Rachmaninov鈥檚 surprisingly passionate journey into night, and Stravinsky鈥檚 exhilarating Firebird. Those glowing melodies, those dazzling cascades of colour鈥hey鈥檒l burn even more brightly tonight.
This concert ends at approximately 9:20 pm