The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storgårds present Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 – a thrilling glimpse of a composer emerging from the shadow of Tchaikovsky and his fellow Romantics. Canadian violinist James Ehnes is the soloist in Walton’s fiercely direct Violin Concerto – a work full of song, dance and drama. The concert opens with a world premiere from heartily irreverent Irish composer Gerald Barry, focusing on Franz Kafka’s obsession with wearing earplugs to silence the noise around him. ‘In the music,’ Barry says, ‘you are Kafka, hearing the world’s sounds as he heard them. You are inside his head.’

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Prom 26: Sibelius’s First Symphony

Royal Albert Hall

Two outstanding musicians resume their fruitful collaboration with a programme including Enescu’s 1926 sonata, subtitled as being ‘in the Romanian folk style’. The Gerald Barry work was originally written for piano in 1990; there’s also a solo violin version (1992), but here the duo will play the two together; ‘triorchic’, incidentally, means possessing three testicles.

Alina Ibragimova violin; Cédric Tiberghien piano

Wigmore Hall

‘Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world’ wrote The Times soon after Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien – then both BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists – first played together in 2007.

Today they are described as the ‘partnership of choice’ for violin and piano repertoire. This concert will provide a rare opportunity to hear these virtuosic musicians perform a varied programme including Czech and Romanian masterpieces as well as Barry’s exciting Triorchic Blues written in 1990. The programme concludes with Beethoven’s brilliant, emotionally rich and romantic ‘Kreutzer’ sonata.

Gerald Barry

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 28, 2024

Alina Ibragimova violin; Cédric Tiberghien piano · Wigmore Hall

Sep 30, 2024

Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien · The Queen's Hall

Past events

Aug 3, 2023

Prom 26: Sibelius’s First Symphony · BBC Philharmonic

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