Imagine this. Irrepressible imagination and flair from a Venezuelan virtuoso.
Caroline Shaw Entr'acte for strings (c.12 mins)
Gabriela Montero Piano Concerto No.1 ‘Latin’ (c.37 mins)
Interval
Brahms Symphony No.4 (c.41 mins)
Gabriela Montero piano
Elim Chan conductor
Gabriela Montero is the virtuoso who broke the mould – the Venezuelan pianist whose irrepressible imagination and flair for improvisation has put creativity back into the heart of the classical piano repertoire. “For me, music is a purposeful art”, she says, and today she stars in her own, exuberant Latin Concerto: not, she says, “a naïve vision of a carnival continent” but “a profoundly personal expression of the continent in which I was born”. Guest conductor Elim Chan frames it with classics old and new – Caroline Shaw’s 21st century tribute to the music of the classical era, and Brahms’s mighty final symphony: an old master singing, dancing and raging against the dying of the light.
Age Restriction
Under 16's must be accompanied by an adult 18+
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