City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Sheffield International Concert Season 2023/24

Oval Hall | Sheffield City Hall

Pre-Concert Talk 6pm 

Eduardo Strausser conductor

Jess Gillam saxophone

 

Rossini La Cenerentola: Overture 8’

Villa-Lobos Fantasia for saxophone 10’

Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel: Suite 25’

Interval 

John Williams Catch Me If You Can: Escapades 13’

Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1919) 23’

 

The charismatic Brazilian conductor, Eduardo Strausser, leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in its long-awaited return to Sheffield, opening the concert with Rossini’s Overture to his fairy-tale opera Cinderella.

 

The trailblazing saxophonist and BBC Radio 3 presenter, Jess Gillam, joins them for another very welcome appearance, performing Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos’s dance-driven, miniature saxophone concerto, Fantasia and John Williams’s jazz-inspired Escapades, from Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. Two suites complete the programme: Rimsky-Korsakov’s comedic, Oriental-influenced opera The Golden Cockerel and Stravinsky’s magical ballet The Firebird.