Stravinsky The Firebird
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Synopsis
About the Show
With Music Director Vasily Petrenko and star pianist Bertrand Chamayou
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Vasily Petrenko makes his return to The Glasshouse International Centre for Music with a romantic and storyful programme of works.
With a burst of flame and a cascade of sparks, the magical Firebird leaps into life. When Igor Stravinsky composed his great ballet, he didn’t just imagine a world of enchanted princesses, courageous heroes and green-clawed demons, he let us hear it, too. That is our final destination tonight as Vasily Petrenko and the RPO set out on a fantastic musical voyage that opens with Tchaikovsky’s lush Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture; for many the perfect illustration of the fate of those star-cross’d lovers.
And as for Saint-Saëns’ exuberant Second Piano Concerto: well, one critic said that it begins in church and ends at an orgy. It’ll fizz like champagne as Vasily Petrenko partners one of France’s most brilliant pianists, Bertrand Chamayou.
