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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra VOLKOV CONDUCTS ‘PETRUSHKA’

Friday 26 January 2024, 7.30pm

Stravinsky

Mozart

Scènes de ballet

Piano Concerto No.9

‘Jeunehomme’ K.271

Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)

Joanna MacGregor piano

Ilan Volkov conductor

Take Ilan Volkov, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s charismatic Principal Guest Conductor, and a byword for music-making without compromise. Add Joanna MacGregor: the energising, genre-busting British pianist who plays by no rules but her own. Now put them together with the melody, the wit and the irrepressible imagination of a 21-year old genius called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and that’s just the centrepiece of a concert that pairs the most dazzling musical mind of the late 18th century with the composer who revolutionised the 20th. Driving rhythms, fabulous colours, and fairground puppets that spring to startling, heart-breaking life: this is the musical world of Igor