大象传媒

Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Introduced by Tom Redmond

Franck: Le Chasseur maudit
Saint-Sa毛ns: Piano Concerto No.5 in F major, Op.103 (Egyptian)

8.20pm Interval

8.45pm
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op.45

C茅dric Tiberghien (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Tom Redmond presents conductor Karina Canellakis's CBSO debut with a programme of Franck, Saint-Sa毛ns and Rachmaninov at Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Conjuring Lisztian dark magic, Franck's symphonic poem Le Chasseur maudit portrays the horrible fate of a defiant count cursed for eternity for hunting on the Sabbath. French pianist then joins the orchestra for a journey to Thebes - via Spain and Java - in a work composed on one of Saint-Sa毛ns's frequent winter holidays to Luxor and described by him as a sea voyage. It's all wrapped up with Rachmaninov's sumptuous melodies in his by turns symphonic, balletic, and possibly autobiographical Symphonic Dances.