Romantics and Radicals – St Cecilia Orchestra

This final concert of the season juxtaposes Schumann’s intensely lyrical cello concerto and Tchaikovsky’s poignant Andante Cantabile , performed by St Cecilia’s principal cellist, Helen Dawson, with works by two of the early 20th Century’s most radical composers, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky: The ‘Classical’ Symphony, which meshes the tradition of clarity and formality with the renegade spirit of Prokofiev’s early works, and the ’Pulcinel...