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Thursday 17 January 2008, 7.30pm
PRE-CONCERT EVENT AT 6.30PM
R. Strauss Don Juan 20'
John McCabe Cello Concerto world premiere 25' HALLÉ FIRST | WORLD
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances 33'
Mark Elder conductor • Truls Mřrk cello
Richard Strauss wrote his eruptive tone poem Don Juan when he was in his mid-20s and inclined to sympathise vigorously with the life-force in the serial lover! Mark Elder finds a splendid counterweight in a late work by Strauss's contemporary Rachmaninov: his Symphonic Dances, which he wrote when an exile in the United States. Truly symphonic in nature, they are totally original and utterly inspiring. Rachmaninov learned something from the dash and dazzle of American orchestras, but his music's heart remained in the great Russian Romantic tradition. From John McCabe, a modern-day Romantic, brought up in the North-West, and whose music was a highlight in Hallé programmes in the 1960s and '70s, comes a brand new cello concerto for the marvellous Norwegian, Truls Mřrk. |
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