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Live from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, in Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole & Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Kirill Gerstein. The second half is an all-Italian programme of Puccini's Capriccio Sinfonico and Respighi's Pines of Rome.

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

8.10pm:
Interval, including Puccini's Crisantemi for string quartet and Respighi's Il Tramonto

8.30pm:
Puccini: Capriccio Sinfonico
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Maurice Ravel absorbed the jazz blues on his trips to the USA, but also had a special place in his heart for the hot-blooded rhythms of his native Basque Country. Ottorino Respighi took an enchanted musical tour of his adopted home city of Rome, where even the pine trees had a song to sing; and Puccini imagined what it might be like to write a symphony rather than an opera - but still came up with some of his incredible trademark melodies.
Conductor Vasily Petrenko whisks us southwards - and after creating such a stir on his last visit to Liverpool, pianist Kirill Gerstein should make Ravel's concerto sparkle and dance like never before.