Season Opening Concert

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Philharmonic HallPhilharmonic Hall, Hope St, Liverpool, North-West, L1 9BP, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)	West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)	Piano Concerto
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)	Rhapsody in Blue
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Symphonic Dances, Op.45

Performers

Domingo Hindoyan	Conductor
Paul Lewis	Piano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

In 1950s Manhattan, electrifying dance rhythms punch and kick across the hot city streets. A world away, a composer in exile creates a masterpiece that’s part-symphony, part-ballet, and all Rachmaninov. And in between, Liverpool’s own piano superstar Paul Lewis salutes jazz-age America in Copland’s Piano Concerto and George Gershwin’s inimitable, irresistible Rhapsody in Blue.

Tickets: £60/£53/£44/£40/£37/£24

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Tristan Labouret, 9th January

The work most frequently performed in concert in 2023, Rachmaninov’s masterpiece owes its popularity to specific circumstances, but also to much deeper reasons.

Hindoyan and the RLPO start the season with Americana and Rachmaninov

Peter Connors, 22nd September

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