Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto is the Romantic jewel at the centre of an intoxicating concert.
Thomas Adès’ Asyla is huge, and it calls for a huge orchestra. We meet the challenge by joining forces with the youthful talents of our exceptional mentoring orchestra, the Sydney
Sinfonia, in our very first “Side-by-Side” concert. With old hands and fresh faces we’ll form a super orchestra to play this madhouse of a piece with its thrilling contrasts and pop culture influences – The Rite of Spring meets club music.
Maxwell Foster is another youthful talent, and he’ll be performing the concerto that won him the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year award in 2008 when he was 16. This concerto isn’t a chart topper for nothing: Tchaikovsky marries virtuoso power to his famous soaring melodies for the perfect blend of brilliance and poetry. Lucid orchestral colours and dancing rhythms frame an intoxicating concert.
P STANHOPE Fantasia on a Theme by Vaughan Williams
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.1
ADÈS Asyla*
TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker: Suite*
Richard Gill conductor
Thomas Adès conductor*
Maxwell Foster piano
Sydney Sinfonia (Side-by-Side with
the Sydney Symphony)*
Pre-concert talk by composer Paul Stanhope in the Northern Foyer at 5.45pm (20 and 21 October only)
TEA & SYMPHONY - 22 OCT
Short program: Stanhope and Tchaikovsky concerto