Haochen Zhang & Hannu Lintu – Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2

Slonimsky’s Earbox, an imaginatively titled burst of colours, shapes and sounds takes its cue from Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale, both works paired tonight in celebration of the remarkable American composer John Adams’s 80th birthday. Equally kaleidoscopic is South Korean composer Donghoon Shin’s Upon His Ghostly Solitude, a 2023 orchestra showpiece, inspired by W. B. Yeats’s devastating war-tone poem Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Rounding out this exhilarating programme, the superlatively acclaimed Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang tackles Prokofiev’s fearsomely demanding Second Piano Concerto in partnership with our Music Director Hannu Lintu.