BBC NOW - Fate & Fantasy

SPECTACLE · PASSION · LEGEND Otto Tausk – Conductor Stephen Hough - Piano Anna Clyne Masquerade Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 Interval Janacek Taras Bulba Strauss Don Juan Fate & Fantasy, conducted by Otto Tausk, celebrates music’s power to tell stories and summon vivid worlds. The concert opens with Anna Clyne’s Masquerade, an energetic, sharply coloured piece inspired by eighteenth century promenade music and the spectacle of masked celebration. Tumultuous opening gestures give way to lyrical string writing, capturing the excitement, elegance and theatrical flair of music entwined with dance and disguise. Then we welcome, Stephen Hough to perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. It is one of the most demanding and thrilling works in the repertoire, renowned for its extraordinary virtuosity, the concerto marries relentless technical brilliance with sweeping lyricism, expressive mel