Arabian Nights

American conductor Robert Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, makes a welcome return visit to the CBSO for a programme of colourful showpieces. He marks the centenary this year of Rimsky-Korsakov’s death with a performance of the composer’s most famous work, a ravishing suite based on the Arabian Nights. Ravel was an equally accomplished orchestrator of his own and others’ music, and the concert begins with a set of waltzes which began life as piano pieces. As centrepiece of the concert, the CBSO’s outstanding Flute Section Leader makes her first solo appearance with the Orchestra in the tuneful concerto by French composer Jacques Ibert.

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This concert is supported by the Friends of the CBSO.

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