The OBC welcomes December with music that seems to light up the hall from the very first bar. Ludovic Morlot conducts a programme designed to showcase the orchestra in all its colours. It opens with Glinka’s Spanish Overture No. 1, inspired by the Aragonese jota. Next, James Ehnes performs Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a work that combines virtuosity and lyricism with orchestral writing that moves from delicacy to intensity without losing its emotional momentum. The programme concludes with The Nutcracker, featuring some of the dances that have made the ballet part of the Christmas imagination for generations. Three different ways to bring rhythm, colour and tradition to life.
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Ludovic Morlot has selected the excerpts from The Nutcracker himself. Without staging or choreography, the concert offers a chance to hear just how much of the ballet’s magic is already in the music.
Ludovic Morlot has selected the excerpts from The Nutcracker himself. Without staging or choreography, the concert offers a chance to hear just how much of the ballet’s magic is already in the music.
