Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No5
James Newton Howard Violin Concerto No2* UK Premiere
Barber Adagio for Strings
R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Alexander Shelly Conductor
James Ehnes Violin
Platoon, Death in Venice, 2001: A Space Odyssey… picture those classic movies and you can already hear the music of Samuel Barber, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. But there’s no cinema on earth that can beat the sound of a full symphony orchestra playing these masterpieces live. That’s what we’re doing tonight, and there’s a bonus feature too, as violinist James Ehnes premieres a brand-new showpiece by Hollywood legend James Newton Howard (The Sixth Sense, The Hunger Games).
*Co-commissioned by the RSNO and National Symphony Orchestra Washington