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Hilary Hahn: The Lark Ascending | Philharmonia Orchestra

When
Sunday November 7, 2021 at 19:30
Where
Royal Festival Hall, London
Tickets
£13 – £65; multi-buy offer available; under 18s and concessions discounts available (limited availability)
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  1. The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  2. Tumblebird Contrails - Gabriella Smith
  3. Concerto for violin and orchestra No 1 in D Op 19 - Sergey Prokofiev
  4. Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 - Johannes Brahms

Hilary Hahn’s fantastic playing, and her barrier-busting approach to classical music, have won her a global community of fans.

Tonight she joins forces with captivating conductor Elim Chan in two contrasting pieces written at the time of the First World War. In Vaughan Williams’s beloved The Lark Ascending the violin soars joyfully above a lush orchestral evocation of the English countryside. Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto too is full of lyricism, and virtuosity too, but with a darker edge.

Different birds, in a very different landscape, feature in Gabriella Smith’s depiction of a moment on the Pacific coast of the US, ‘watching a pair of ravens playing in the wind, rolling, swooping, diving, soaring.’ And the pastoral mood of the first half of the concert returns in Brahms’s rich and radiant Symphony No 2.


Venue
Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road
London
London
SE1 8XX
England


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