SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
ARUTIUNIAN Trumpet Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Jade Park Trumpet
Paul Terracini Conductor
Shostakovich’s celebratory Festive Overture opens a concert featuring a new work, alongside two classics of the repertoire.
A modern masterpiece, Arutiunian weaves lyricism and virtuosic brilliance in equal measure throughout his trumpet concerto, before the elegiac beauty of Brahms’ final symphony.
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
ARUTIUNIAN Trumpet Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Jade Park Trumpet
Paul Terracini Conductor
Shostakovich’s celebratory Festive Overture opens a concert featuring a new work, alongside two classics of the repertoire.
A modern masterpiece, Arutiunian weaves lyricism and virtuosic brilliance in equal measure throughout his trumpet concerto, before the elegiac beauty of Brahms’ final symphony.
Paul Terracini Conductor
Enjoy an afternoon of wonderful music from the world of cinema. All your favourites from the silver screen, as well as the gaming arena are represented, from John Williams Star Wars to the magic of Mary Poppins.
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
WSU Composer Prize
Xiaochen Chen Piano
Paul Terracini Conductor
PSO presents a Russian Spectacular on a winter afternoon, with Rachmaninov’s much-loved second piano concerto, alongside the monumental fifth symphony of Shostakovich.
WAGNER Tristan and Isolde Prelude
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4
MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries
LISZT Les préludes
Stephanie McCallum Piano
Paul Terracini Conductor
From the intimate to the grand, Beethoven’s almost chamber music like Piano Concerto No. 4 is the centrepiece of a program also featuring some of the greatest orchestral minatures.
Artistic Director Paul Terracini discusses the historical context and compositional techniques employed in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Artistic Director Paul Terracini discusses the historical context and compositional techniques employed in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
PSO’s Artistic Director Paul Terracini discusses the historical context of Puccini and his masterpiece La Bohème.
Artistic Director explores the history and development of film music, from its origins in France through the golden years of Hollywood, identifying the key composers along the way.
The grand Romanticism of one of the great violin concertos, alongside Brahms’ joyous third symphony.
