Name: BBC SSO 2024-25 Season Afternoon Performance: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1
Start: 2025-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Tito Muñoz

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Alim Beisembayev

Piano

English

BBC SSO 2024-25 Season Afternoon Performance: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

Symphony No. 1

Sharan Allad

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The orchestra throws down a challenge, and the piano strides forward with one of the grandest tunes Tchaikovsky ever wrote. Seabirds wheel and soar, and jet-streams trace fabulous patterns across the blue Pacific sky. And in the silence of dawn, a young artist walks out on a lifelong voyage: a tale of struggle and joy, turmoil and triumph. Three very different composers, and three different openings – but each one is just the start of an adventure, told today by the BBC SSO and conductor Tito Muñoz, who created such a buzz at City Halls in 2022. Pianist Alim Beisembayev is the soloist; this 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner has been described as “positively luminous”.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble