Name: Afternoon Performance: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances
Start: 2025-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Teresa Riveiro Böhm

Orchestra

Singer

Johanna Wallroth

Soprano

Afternoon Performance: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Concert

Overture

Songs For Soprano

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Sharan Allad

Approved

Sergei Rachmaninov was born in imperial Russia, but he died in Beverly Hills, and his Symphonic Dances fuse the melancholy of exile with the rhythm, the glamour and the sheer verve of the jazz-age USA. Dream ballet? Showpiece for orchestra? Or simply the most personal symphony Rachmaninov never wrote? However you hear them, guest conductor Teresa Riveiro Böhm has made them the climax of a concert filled with powerful voices and dark poetry. Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture gets things off to an electrifying start. Then BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Johanna Wallroth turns the leaves of the Richard Strauss songbook: miniature worlds of tenderness, melody and romance, perfectly suited to what one critic called the “pure magic” of her voice.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble