A Taste of France

Tue 2 Dec 7:30pm at Symphony Hall

IIan Volkov Credit Keith Saunders

Widely acknowledged as an expert conductor of 20thcentury music, Ilan Volkov includes three French masterpieces in a programme full of orchestral colour. Debussy’s famous portrait of the sea in all its various
moods finds a more exotic counterpart in the 1912 ballet by Paul Dukas (of Sorcerer’s Apprentice fame) which tells of a Persian man’s quest for the Flower of Immortality. We are also joined by the Nazareth-born pianist, who scored a success here in Beethoven two years ago, for two
contrasting concertos: Ravel’s jazzy Left Hand Concerto and a new work by Jordanian composer Saed Haddad.

6.15pm Pre-concert talk – Premiere! – Saed Haddad’s Piano Concerto
Conductor Ilan Volkov and soloist Saleem Abboud Ashkar talk to Stephen Maddock about tonight’s UK premiere.

£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50

Ilan Volkov conductor
Saleem Abboud Ashkar piano

Dukas La Péri 19’
Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand 20’
Haddad “Alternative World-versions” for Piano & Orchestra (UK premiere) 11’
Debussy La Mer 25’

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