BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Javier Perianes performs Ravel's sparkling Piano Concerto - BBC Symphony Orchestra

9 Feb 2018, Barbican, London

19:30 Fri 9 Feb 2018 Next Event

Javier Perianes performs Ravel's sparkling Piano Concerto

19:30 Fri 9 Feb 2018 Barbican, London

Masterly composer and imaginative orchestrator Ravel is performed alongside a UK premiere by George Walker and Barber’s expressive First Symphony.

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01:47

Conductor James Feddeck sings the praises of Barber’s Symphony No.1

Ahead of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert on Friday 9 February

Feb '18BBC

Programme

- - Samuel Barber
  - Symphony No. 1, Op 9
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Piano Concerto in G major
- - George Walker
  - Icarus in Orbit
- - Modest Mussorgsky
  - Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)

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Ravel’s sparkling Piano Concerto and his marvellous orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition join Barber's early and highly expressive First Symphony. To complement the rest of teh programme, James Feddeck conducts teh UK premiere of Icarus in Orbit by Pulitzer Prize-winning George Walker, who turned 95 in 2017.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season

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