Grieg with Marc: Northern Lights and Legends

Firebird’s popular season-closing summer concert takes us to the Fjords and Forests of Scandinavia with two of the most eternally-beloved cornerstones of the Romantic orchestral repertoire. Rachmaninoff described Grieg’s masterpiece of a piano concerto as ‘the greatest piano concerto ever written.” High praise – but it’s easy to see why as Norwegian folk dances play alongside gloriously romantic melodies and huge crashing chords, a captivating cadenza and moments of exquisite beauty.

Sibelius’s rousing Second Symphony never fails to delight. Evoking the grandeur of the lakes and mountainsof his native Finland, This work culminates in the fourth movement’s most nobly brave and all-time-favourite themes. Artistic Director Marc Corbett Weaver makes his annual appearance as piano soloist with George Jackson as conductor.

London Firebird Orchestra
Conductor George Jackson
Piano Marc Corbett-Weaver