at Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

Date: Tue 18th Nov
Time: 19:30

André de Ridder conductor
Ruth Palmer violin

Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
Barber: Violin Concerto
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Beethoven: Symphony No.5

With its lush, lyrical opening and full-throttle finale, Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto is perfectly suited to Ruth Palmer, Classical BRIT award-winner in 2007, whose expressive, physical performances have made her one of the hottest young talents today. Barber’s famous Adagio for Strings offers a poignant contrast.

Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture was written for a friend’s now-forgotten tragic play but the drama lives on in this vivid portrait of the stern warrior hero. The Novelist E M Forster described Beethoven’s 5th Symphony as ‘the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man’ and it’s hard to disagree. Robust and reckless, it never lets go its grip, from the fateful opening four notes to the joyful abandon of the finale.


“Strident, shocking, imperious and beautiful, this was a riveting performance” – The Independent on Sunday on Ruth Palmer

“Palmer’s bow has a demonic edge and her tone is so sweatily intense that one cannot turn away” – The Times


Free pre-concert talk, 6.30pm in the auditorium:
Ruth Palmer in converstaion about Barber's Violin Concerto

Estimated finishing time 9.20pm

For more information and clips of the music in this concert please visit:
www.nottinghamclassics.org.uk/viva1

Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

Theatre Square
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 5ND

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