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BBC NOW | Cello Concerto No. 1
Saturday 11 January 2025, 3.00 pm
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, Wales
Leoš JANÁČEK: The Cunning Little Vixen (suite)
Bohuslav MARTINŮ: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1, H 196
Igor STRAVINSKÝ: Petrushka (1947 version)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Antony Hermus (conductor)
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Start your musical journey this January with Janáček’s immensely popular tragicomedy The Cunning Little Vixen. With short and pithy symphonic pantomime sections, inventively orchestrated to give each character their own rhythmic motif, this folksy suite is laden with lush harmony and a mood firmly drenched in nature and love.
The immensely popular cellist Laura van der Heijden returns to BBC NOW with a performance of Martinů’s athletic and folky, yet expressively impassioned Cello Concerto, before conductor Antony Hermus turns puppet-master in Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Petrushka, the rebellious jester falls in love with a Ballerina who falls in love with the Moor in this fated folk story, with the dancing and despairingly flailing puppet cleverly wound into action by Stravinsky’s ingenious rhythm and orchestration.
More information: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e2nqwh
https://www.wmc.org.uk/en/whats-on/2025/folk-tales-and-fabled-love
