Name: Bristol Beacon 4: Evelyn Glennie plays Jennifer Higdon
Start: 2024-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Bristol Beacon

Admin

Conductor

Kirill Karabits

Orchestra

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Evelyn Glennie

Percussion

BBC Proms

Bristol Beacon 4: Evelyn Glennie plays Jennifer Higdon

Bristol

United Kingdom

Bristol Beacon

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Ange [Angel] - Poème Nocturne for Orchestra

Percussion Concerto

Knell

Symphony No. 5

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Bristol Beacon’s Orchestra in Residence – opens its concert with a little-known gem of Ukrainian music. Feodor Akimenko was born in Kharkiv in 1876, going on to teach Igor Stravinsky before writing his beautiful ‘Poème- Nocturne’ Angel in 1912. The BSO’s Ukrainian Chief Conductor (and Akimenko aficionado) Kirill Karabits conducts it here as a prelude to American composer Jennifer Higdon’s seriously flamboyant Percussion Concerto, played by Evelyn Glennie, and Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5. Knell by Iranian composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh offers a glance back to Akimenko’s Angel in its momentary, symbolic plea for peace.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble