Name: Zakir Hussain's Triple Concerto
Start: 2025-03-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Conductor

Alpesh Chauhan

Instrumentalist

Zakir Hussain

Tabla

Niladri Kumar

Sitar

Rakesh Chaurasia

Flute

Zakir Hussain's Triple Concerto

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Aberdeen

Music Hall

Public

Concert

The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic Poem Op. 29

Triple Concerto

The Firebird Suite (1919)

Sharan Allad

Approved

Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic, conjured by Indian musical royalty.
When different musical cultures meet, a new kind of harmony is born. “Mesmerising” was how one critic described the new Triple Concerto by Zakir Hussain when Alpesh Chauhan conducted its first British performances in 2023, and today the composer himself is among the soloists in a piece which, he says, tells a tale of love, tradition and the transforming power of art. It’s perfect for Chauhan, a conductor with a real flair for finding the heart and soul of a piece of music, and he follows it with two dark fairytales from Romantic Russia – Rachmaninov’s surprisingly passionate journey into night, and Stravinsky’s exhilarating Firebird. Those glowing melodies, those dazzling cascades of colour…they’ll burn even more brightly tonight.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble