Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

Oval Hall | Sheffield City Hall

Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Frizza conductor
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano

Pre-Concert Performance with BBC Broadcaster Trisha Cooper & Special Guest Peter Hill: 6pm
Celebrating 25 years of the Steinway Piano. A performance by one of the leading British pianists of his generation Peter Hill. 

Concert: 7pm

GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture (6’)
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2 (33’)
Interval
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3, “Eroica” (53’)

Concert ends: 9pm

The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor, Riccardo Frizza, make a welcome return to Sheffield City Hall in a programme that promises to resonate long after the final note has been played. The concert opens with Glinka’s captivating and vibrant Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila before the spotlight shifts to Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Hailing from the remarkably gifted Kanneh-Mason family of seven musically-obsessed siblings, she turns her attention to Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto which is renowned for its emotional depth. The transformative power of music will be heralded in Beethoven’s “Eroica”, a symphony that changed the classical music landscape forever.