The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child: Film with Live Orchestra

Saturday 28 January 11am

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Terry Davies conductor

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Terry Davies conducts the Orchestra for René Aubry’s inspired scores for this wonderful animated double-bill, based on the much-loved children’s books written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep dark wood, where he is confronted by three hungry animals who each thinks that the mouse looks good! And the magic doesn’t stop there, as the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warnings one wild and windy night and goes in search of the Big Bad Mouse...

The concert will last approximately one hour. Family concerts are most suitable for children aged 4-10 years.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Alpine Symphony

Wednesday 1 February 8pm Music Room

Kweku Sackey aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) is a multi-dimensional force, combining exquisite writing skills with shamanistic live performance, fierce raps, perfectly on pitch singing across a massive vocal range and some absolutely wicked dance moves. Not to mention his skills as a percussionist, arranger, bandleader and art director. A true poet and storyteller, he uses a mix of English, Pidgin and Ga to paint sonic pictures that reach deep into the soul.

Kweku is deeply aware of his heritage and of his role as an ambassador, negotiating culturally between African and Western influences and between the traditional and the modern: always open to new innovations and ideas while firmly rooted in a deep lineage.

This is a standing event.

Thursday 2 February 7.30pm

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Bruch Violin Concerto No.1

Strauss An Alpine Symphony

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor/violin

Richard Strauss boasted that he could depict even a knife and fork in music. So when he set out to paint the full majesty of the Bavarian Alps, the results were... well, hear for yourself as Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and a super-sized Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra scale the summit of the mighty Alpine Symphony. There are waterfalls, glaciers, an ear-splitting storm – and that’s after our multi-tasking guest maestro plays the solo violin in Bruch’s unashamedly romantic Violin Concerto. It was one of Strauss’ favourite pieces, and one of ours, too.