Event listing: Romantic Adventures | Smith Square Hall | Sat 22 Jan 2011 at 19:30

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Smith Square HallSmith Square, London, London, Greater London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

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Programme

Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)	Fantasía para un gentilhombre (Fantasy for a Nobleman)
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)	Harold en Italie, Op.16
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, Op.15

Performers

I Maestri
George Hlawiczka	Conductor
Jean-Louis Gosselin	Conductor
Sam Cave	Guitar
Mariam Ruetschi	Viola
Marianna Prjevalskaya	Piano

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Last night’s concert programme read like the travelling itinerary of a young English aristocrat embarking on the fashionable “Grand Tour” of Europe. The concert began in Spain with Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre, a piece as imbued with the flavours of Spanish folk music as his more famous Concierto de Aranjuéz, also for guitar and orchestra.

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