Organization

Conductor

Jordan de Souza

Instrumentalist

Nicholas McCarthy

Piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Hull

United Kingdom

Hull City Hall

Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand: The Wasps - Ouverture Vaughan Williams (+2 More)

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The Wasps, Aristophanic suite

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Symphony No. 4

Approved

When the pianist Paul Wittgenstein lost his right hand in the First World War, he asked Ravel to write him something he could play with his left hand alone. The result is a masterpiece that glitters like a rare diamond. Played tonight by one of its most brilliant living champions, Nicholas McCarthy, it is the smouldering heart of a concert that begins in the English countryside as depicted by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and ends with Tchaikovsky at his most impassioned. The latter’s Fourth Symphony is a fearless musical autobiography, told in melodies that burn themselves into your memory. Tchaikovsky battles Fate itself and, in the hands of guest conductor Jordan de Souza, every note will feel like a matter of life or death.

English

Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2024/2024), Conductor Jordan de Souza, Hull City Hall, Hull, United Kingdom

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