Orchestral Masterworks: Myths and Magic

Name: Orchestral Masterworks: Myths and Magic
Start: 2025-02-20 18:00:00
Location: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Dates
20 February 2025, 6:00pm

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Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

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£10, £8; £5 under 35

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20 February 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
£10, £8; £5 under 35

Priority booking now open

RCM Friends and supporters at Core Contributor level and above have priority booking from Wednesday 11 December. General booking opens for our Spring Season on Wednesday 18 December.

Become a member and benefit from priority booking.

Natalia Luis-Bassa conductor
RCM Philharmonic

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Gabriela Ortiz Kauyumari
Pierre Catherine-Buffet Migratory Dove (world premiere)
Koji Kondo (arr Nic Raine) The Legend of Zelda
Ginastera Dances from Estancia op 8a

Natalia Luis-Bassa unveils a mystical world of magic and mayhem in a concert that ranges from orchestral classics to game music, plus a world premiere from RCM Composition for Screen Masters student Pierre Catherine-Buffet.

Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain was inspired by Gogol’s horror-filled folk tale St John’s Eve, which prompted the composer to write what he called a ‘hot-blooded and disordered’ work evoking a witches’ sabbath of unhinged mania – eventually vanquished by tolling bells.

Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari represents a blue deer, a Mexican spirit guide that reminds us of our role as guardians of the planet, and, in an RCM first, we hear game music by Koji Kondo from The Legend of Zelda.

The programme is rounded off by the spirited, rhythmically intricate Dances from Estancia by Ginastera.

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