Join the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra at the ±«Óãtv's Maida Vale Studios for a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded for deferred broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio 3’s Afternoon Concert.
Two works written by composers at the start of their creative outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There’s a rarely performed work by the 13-year-old Richard Strauss. The concerto for piano, full string orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct furrow through the 20th century Soviet Union. We end with Jean Sibelius’s final symphony, written in 1923-24. Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of one long continuous movement.
Programme:
Richard Strauss: Serenade in G major o.Op.32 Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto* Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
