Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
25th Anniversary Concert
Grant Llewellyn conductor
Tom Poster piano
Haydn Symphony No 44in E minor Trauer
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
The BHCO celebrates 25 years of high quality music-making with a masterly anniversary concert conducted by its founding director, Grant Llewellyn, now artistic director of the North Carolina Symphony.
The programme opens with the bracing Trauer (Mourning) Symphony, considered by Haydn himself to be one of his finest – he asked for its slow movement to be played at his funeral – and concludes with Beethoven’s spirited Second Symphony, composed in 1802 with the composer finally coming to terms with his growing deafness. Brilliant young star Tom Poster, internationally recognised as a pianist of astounding artistry and versatility, brings his prodigious talent to a compelling account of Brahms’s huge Piano Concerto No 2.
‘The superb Tom Poster showed impressive verve and gusto … a really impressive performance.’ Bristol Evening Post
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