Afternoon Performance: Rachmaninov's Symphony No.1
14:00 Sun 15 Feb 2026 City Halls
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Programme
- Prelude A L'Après-midi d'un faune(10 mins)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor(26 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 1 in D minor(45 mins)
Performers
- Hana Changviolin
- Chloé Van SoeterstèdeConductor
About This Event
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, sayeth the Lord”. And taking his cue from those thunderous words, the young Rachmaninov hurled himself into a First Symphony on a formidable scale. Dark, turbulent and burning with unrequited passion, this is music as gothic melodrama – lost (but later recovered) when its composer fled the Russian Revolution for a life of exile.
It’s a gripping climax to this concert from guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède: an afternoon that begins in the dream-world of Debussy’s mythical Faun, and ends at the gates of the inferno. But there’s time to sing, and to dance too - and when you hear BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist Hana Chang play Prokofiev’s zingy Second Violin Concerto, you’ll believe that a violin can do both.
