Paul Terracini | conductor
Michael Kieran Harvey | piano
Repeat performance at Camden Civic Centre, Sunday 11 November, 4.00pm
Precocious compositional talent is to the fore in a program featuring three works conceived by composers under 26. In Soirées Musicales, based on piano pieces by Rossini, Britten already gives a glimpse of the masterly orchestration that would become his hallmark. Rhapsody in Blue, originally written for solo piano and jazz band almost 20 years before the version most often performed today, was controversial in its fusion of classical and jazz elements but has become an enduring favourite in the symphonic repertoire. Andrew Howes, the inaugural recipient of a commission under the Penrith Symphony Orchestra Support for Young Composers Scheme, is attracting attention as one of Australia’s most gifted young composers. Alongside these three striking, youthful works, Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony stands as one of the mighty pillars of the nineteenth-century orchestral literature.