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16 Nov 2018, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Philharmonic 2018-19 Season Stephan/Walton/Howells/ Shostakovich

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Philharmonic
Stephan/Walton/Howells/ Shostakovich
19:30 Fri 16 Nov 2018 The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

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In 1915 Rudi Stephan’s promising career was cut brutally short when a sniper shot and killed the 28-year-old German composer on the Eastern Front. A rarity well worth reviving in a second concert reflecting on the Armistice, Stephan’s Music for Orchestra (1912) opens a concert that also features Herbert Howells’s moving tribute to Francis Purcell Warren, a fellow composer who died on the battlefields a year later, and Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony, a profoundly brave riposte to Stalin, written as the Second World War drew to a close.

Lawrence Power takes the spotlight in Walton’s haunting Viola Concerto.