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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan join pianist Stephen Hough in Rachmaninov, plus a Richard Baker premiere, and Bruckner’s transcendental Symphony No.9.

In his most famous work, Sergei Rachmaninov pits piano against orchestra in a witty, bolshie and wickedly entertaining dual. Who wins? Find out as Stephen Hough takes on this remarkable piece.

Anton Bruckner’s last, unfinished symphony was intended as his great spiritual autobiography. Even from the three movements the composer did finish, we experience intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness. Fate decreed that the symphony would end with music apparently slow enough to stop time itself – a great, transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner’s epitaph.

The concert begins with the world premiere of a ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO commission: Richard Baker’s orchestral reimagining of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Live from the Barbican London
Presented by Martin Handley

Richard Baker: The Price of Curiosity (´óÏó´«Ã½ Commission: world premiere)
Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

8.05pm
Interval music chosen by composer Richard Baker [off CD]

Jonathan Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost
St John's College Cambridge Choir
Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)

Mary Finsterer (1962): Julian suite III - Angelus for clarinet, cello and piano
Ensemble Liaison

8.25pm [Concert Part 2]
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 9

Stephen Hough (piano)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)