Kazuki conducts Rachmaninoff & Bartók

Visits to the past, variations on a theme and a wild ride into the future.

Artists often look back in order to move forward. Take a time-trip with the CBSO and Kazuki Yamada as three composers transplant music from the past into new, radical environments. In Hindemith’s Metamorphosis the nineteenth century sounds of Weber are hurled, kicking and sometimes howling, into the modern era. Rachmaninoff riffs on a beautiful melody from the 1800s, examining it from 24 angles. Internationally renowned pianist Nelson Goerner is the soloist. Bartók’s Concerto honours the folk music of his native Hungary while giving the spotlight to almost every instrument of the modern orchestra. An exhilarating, head-spinning evening is guaranteed.