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16 November 2024 Brighton (United Kingdom)
The Madness/Lightness of Being
Brighton Philharmonic Strings conducted by Joanna MacGregor - Brighton Dome
Program Info: J.S. Bach - Keyboard concerto in F minor BWV 1056 Alfred Schnittke - Tango in a Madhouse Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra Valentin Silvestrov - Silent Music for Strings Bernard Herrmann - Suite from Psycho Astor Piazzolla (arr.MacGregor) - Oblivion Astor Piazzolla (arr.MacGregor) - Michelangelo Astor Piazzolla (arr.MacGregor) - Milonga del Angel Astor Piazzolla (arr.MacGregor) - Libertango
Madness, mayhem and tango entwine in a cinematic concert of light and shade.
Alfred Hitchcock’s enduring artistic relationship with the American composer and conductor Bernard Herrmann reached its height with Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960), whose originality caused audiences to faint with horror. Herrmann arranged his unforgettable score – particularly that shower scene – into an orchestral suite, and here it’s matched with another composer who wrote over sixty film scores, Alfred Schnittke.
Schnittke’s brilliantly cinematic piano concerto, a series of short wild scenes culminating in a massive cadenza, is prefaced by Tango in a Madhouse: his bittersweet tango, written as an allegory of oppression under the Soviet Union.
The psychological darkness of the programme is balanced with Bach’s celestial dance, his F minor keyboard concerto, and Ukraine’s most famous living composer Valentin Silvestrov, whose Silent Music for Strings breathes with delicate yearning and nostalgia. The dark and dangerous heart of Piazzolla, in Joanna MacGregor’s blistering tango arrangements, ends the evening with Buenos Aires panache.
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