Let Us Promenade

Dania Alzapiedi - Violin.

Sibelius - Karelia Suite.
J.s. Bach - Violin Concerto in E major.
Monti - Csárdás.
Grant Still - Symphony No.1, Afro-American.

Continuing the annual homage to Henry Wood’s promenade concerts and his programming vision. This event opens with Sibelius’s Karelia Suite - a firm favourite of concert goers around the world.

Dania Alzapiedi, Co-Principal Second Violin of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, joins for two of the most popular and contrasting works in the violin repertoire - the beautiful Violin Concerto in E major by J.S. Bach and the rhapsodic and virtuosic Csárdás by Vittorio Monti.

The memorable UK première of William Grant Still’s Symphony No.2 in our 2010 season was an unqualified success and tonight we close the concert with his most popular orchestral work, his Symphony No.1, subtitled the Afro-American. Completed in 1930, the work’s première proved to be a huge turning point in the composer’s life and contains the real version of I Got Rhythm.