august, 2022

16aug19:30London, UK - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Copland, Walker, Prokofiev19:30 Royal Albert Hall

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Event Details

Performing with,

Peter Moore, trombone
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme
Copland, Appalachian Spring: Suite
George Walker, Trombone Concerto
Prokofiev, Symphony No.5

Programme Note
Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it’s one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context – alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical’ – The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don’t always get their due.

Time

(Tuesday) 19:30

Location

Royal Albert Hall

Kensington Gore, South Kensington, SW7 2AP

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