Organization

Conductor

Ilan Volkov

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Joanna MacGregor

Piano Solo

Piano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Volkov Conducts ‘Petrushka’

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Volkov Conducts ‘Petrushka’: Quatre études for piano, Op. 7 (Four Studies) Stravinsky (+3 More)

Public

4 Etudes, K009

Levels For Orchestra

Piano Concerto

Petrushka

Approved

ESCAPE INTO FOLKTALES & MISCHIEF.
On a spring day in an imaginary Russia, an excited crowd gathers for a puppet show. Petrushka loves the Ballerina. She prefers another. Tragedy looms, but don’t worry: puppets don’t have souls…do they? Stravinsky’s 'Petrushka' paints Russian tradition in colours as bright as a piece of folk art – and as sinister as the 20th century. It’s a wonderfully bold finale for a concert that opens with Stravinsky at his most startling, and which unites two dauntless musical explorers – pianist Joanna MacGregor and our Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov – in the haunting, utterly original Piano Concerto by Howard Skempton. A striking new work by one of British music’s true radicals completes an evening of music that fascinates and thrills.

This concerts ends at approximately 9:10pm.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble