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Benedetti smiles as she plays the violin. She weard a sleeveless light dress.

Brahms Double Concerto

with Nicola Benedetti & Philip Higham

Programme

  • WEBER

    Overture, Oberon

  • BRAHMS

    Double Concerto

  • SCHUMANN

    Symphony No.3 ‘Rhenish’

Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Philip Higham cello

To close the Season we invite you to an extraordinary evening centred on one of the jewels of the Romantic repertoire: Brahms’ magnificent Double Concerto, a work of sweeping grandeur and intimate dialogue between violin and cello. Nicola Benedetti, a long-time SCO collaborator, joins forces with the SCO’s own Principal Cello, Philip Higham in a thrilling partnership that promises musical drama and elegance.

Under the vibrant direction of Maxim Emelyanychev, the programme begins with Weber’s enchanting Oberon Overture and concludes with Schumann’s radiant Symphony No.3, a work that’s brimming with warmth and vitality.

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