CBSO: Benjamin Grosvenor plays Ravel

Jac van Steen  Conductor

Benjamin Grosvenor  Piano

Hindemith  Concert Music for Strings and Brass, 17mins

Ravel  Piano Concerto in G Major, 23mins

Honegger  Pacific 231, 6mins

Stravinsky  Petrushka (1947), 34mins

This concert is a bracing plunge into the excitements of the early twentieth century. The pieces here fizz with the thrill of the new sounds around them. ‘Take jazz seriously’ Ravel once scolded the American public: it certainly finds its way into this fabulously funky Piano Concerto. Stravinsky, once the wild child on the scene, brings puppets to life in Petrushka, his 1910 forerunner of Toy Story. We climb aboard a steam train for Honegger’s Pacific 231, while Hindemith gives the strings and brass a major workout. Blistering, energetic and surprising from start to finish.

Ticket prices include the coach fare, performance ticket, driver's gratuity and administrative costs.

Muxton 4.45pm, Newport 5.20pm and Cosford 5.40pm