Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Dvořák Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello

Beethoven’s gripping musical portrait of the ill-fated Roman general, Coriolanus, announces the arrival of one of Germany’s most distinguished orchestras, under leading British conductor Alpesh Chauhan. They’re joined by Johannes Moser, a German-Canadian virtuoso with an irresistible spirit of adventure, for Dvořák’s passionate Cello Concerto, whose emotive themes of love and loss are played out in an expansive, symphonic soundscape.

Bringing the concert to an emphatic close is Tchaikovsky’s fiery Fourth Symphony. Born out of the wreckage of his doomed marriage, it bares its soul in a tumult of emotions, announced by an arresting fanfare signalling the malign forces of fate. But there’s also heartfelt poignancy and some deft dialogues between the sections of the orchestra before it all ends exhilaratingly with a whirling folk dance finale.