The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO), Alexey Stadler

Programme:
Barber - Overture, School for Scandal
Dvorak - Cello Concerto
Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2

Vasily Petrenko - conductor
Alexey Stadler - cello

When Vasily Petrenko conducts Russian music, you know to expect big emotions. And they don’t come much bigger than in Rachmaninov’s glorious Second Symphony. He’s paired it with Dvorak’s Cello Concerto: written in the New World and performed tonight, for the first time in Liverpool, by a young Russian star who caused a sensation when he appeared as a last minute replacement with the Orchestra at the 2016 BBC Proms. It’s part of a celebration of music inspired by America: so Barber’s firecracker of an overture will set things off with a bang!