The Metropolitan Orchestra performs Mahler’s enormous Fifth Symphony featuring the largest complement of musicians to hit the stage this year in a work of truly grand proportions. Led by Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Sarah-Grace Williams, this colossal work which opens with an expansive funeral march announced by a solo trumpet call, will take the…
Daniel Rojas. Image Mike Chesworth The Metropolitan Orchestra’s (TMO) next Met Concert Tangos and Tchaikovsky will feature Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings followed by a world-premiere performance of Libertango Suite, featuring pianist-composer Daniel Rojas. Led by Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, these two works performed by TMO’s inspired string section will have the audience swaying in their…
Pianist Clemens Leske will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor with The Metropolitan Orchestra in its annual all-Russian programme. Titled “Russian Nights”, the performance will also include Rimsky-Korsakov’s sultry Scheherazade opus 35. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no 3 is considered one of the most technically confronting concertos in the classical repertoire. It was premiered…