Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto
19:30
Thu 27 Nov 2025
City Halls
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Programme
- Strum(8 mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor(40 mins)
- interval
- Medea's Dance of Vengeance(14 mins)
- La mer(24 mins)
Performers
- Isata Kanneh鈥怣asonpiano
- Delyana LazarovaConductor
About this Concert
A quiet pulse, and a long, chant-like melody that seems to breathe the air of old Russia 鈥� it鈥檚 an unlikely way to begin one of the most difficult and brilliant piano concertos ever created. Rachmaninov鈥檚 Third has been called the 鈥淓verest of piano concertos鈥� but if anyone鈥檚 equipped to scale it, it鈥檚 the superb young British virtuoso Isata Kanneh-Mason and the 成人快手 SSO鈥檚 newly-appointed Principal Guest Conductor Delyana Lazarova.
She鈥檚 placed it at the centre of a concert designed to showcase her own musical passions, whether Jessie Montgomery鈥檚 playful letter from America, Samuel Barber at his most explosive, or Claude Debussy鈥檚 impressionist seascape 鈥� music driven by the swell of waves and the sparkle of sunlight.