ISO Summer Concert with Benjamin Baker
Schedule
Sat Jun 20 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Ipswich Corn Exchange | Ipswich, EN
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We begin our Summer concert with the first significant composition Prokofiev wrote without using the piano, when he was about 27-years old. Of his 'Classical Symphony', Prokofiev said it is “as Haydn might have written it, had he lived in our day.”, composed using the musical idiom and orchestration of an eighteenth-century symphony. Superb violinist, Benjamin Baker, joins us to perform Bruch's famous violin concerto; one of the most celebrated pieces in the violin repertoire. The lyrical melodies and virtuosic demands are influenced by German Romantic composers as well as folk music, and you can expect expressive playing combined with technical brilliance.
Brahms stated ‘Composing a symphony is no laughing matter’, and he worked for a period of 21-years to complete his Symphony No 1. We are excited to play this beautiful work one-hundred-and-fifty years since it's premier performance in November 1876.
Full programme:
Prokofiev - Symphony No 1 in D major Op 25
Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1 in C minor Op 26
Brahms - Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Soloist: Benjamin Baker
Leader: Steve Browne
Venue: Ipswich Corn Exchange
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