Copland and Stravinsky
19:00 Mon 17 Aug 2026 Royal Albert Hall
Programme
- Billy the Kid – suite(22 mins)
- Clarinet Concerto, ‘If love will not swing wide the gates’(22 mins)BBC co-commission: European premiere
- interval
- Petrushka (1947 version)(34 mins)
Performers
- Anthony McGillclarinet
- Ryan Bancroftconductor
About This Event
Two 20th-century ballets lie at the heart of this colourful concert by Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Puppets come to life at a bustling Shrovetide Fair in Stravinsky’s Petrushka – a giddy musical collage of folk tunes and modernist invention – while cowboy songs swirl through the score of Copland’s Billy the Kid: a musical portrait of the infamous outlaw. Dedicatee Anthony McGill is the soloist in a new Clarinet Concerto, ‘If love will not swing wide the gates’, by Portland-based composer and songwriter Gabriel Kahane. A collaborator of Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainright, Kahane blends classical forms with folk-pop influences in his melodic, anthemic writing.
Anthony McGill © Martin Romero
