Doors open: 14:00
Johann Strauss – Die Fledermaus: Overture
Robert Schumann – Cello Concerto, with Stephen Isserlis
Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben, with Nikolaj Znaider
Richard Strauss liked to blow his own trumpets… and his horns, trombones and tubas. So when he used a colossal orchestra to tell the epic story of an imaginary hero it’s not hard to work out who he actually had in mind!
Every performance of Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben is an occasion; first, though, a long-awaited return for one of Britain’s finest living cellists, Stephen Isserlis, and vintage champagne music from Johann Strauss!
Here is Mr. Znaider in the final movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto:
