YOUNG guitarist talent Milos Karadaglic will whip London Philharmonic Orchestra fans across two mountain ranges at Brighton Dome this Saturday (7.30pm).
After the opening piece set in Switzerland – The William Tell Overture by the Italian, Rossini - Karadaglic will transform the atmosphere to one beyond the Pyrennes.
In playing Rodrigo's famously popular and romantic Concierto Di Aranjuez, the 25-
year-old from Montenegro by the Adriatic Sea will take it from the storming horseriders of the overture - who had smashed apart the Alpine mountain pasture idyll in which Rossini was bathing his listeners – to the clicking of the castanet rhythms around the atmospheric and iconic Alhambra Palace in the south of Spain.
Few do not associate this concerto automatically with the central nocturne that rises from the quiet and sleepy night gardens into searing passion before the happy and contented atmospheric finale. This work was last played at the Dome with Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra by our own Shoreham-based Richard Durrant - who has played guitar with street residents in that very Alhambra Palace district.
If the Rossini and the blind Rodrigo were offering their listeners an escape from daily toils and maybe cold weather, the closing work was a product of Tchaikowsky wanting to do that – but from his ill-advised and catastrophic marriage in Russia.
After bolting for it, he poured out his combined relief and distress in his destiny-defining "Fate Motif" Symphony, his No 4 in F minor.
Amid his confronting a raging determining force throughout the Symphony, as in his own life and his sexuality, Tchaikowsky came forth with a stunning dancing scherzo for pizzicato strings before plunging back in the finale into the sturdy strides he made towards a kind of release and triumph in his survival from turmoil.
Back in November, with a Tchaikowsky double bill of concerto and suite, with married couple Gennadi Rhozhdestvensky and Viktoria Postnikova, the LPO sold out the Dome - and here could go close to doing so again. Expect another superb concert with an equivalent programme brochure.
The appearance of Milos Karadaglic is supported by St Giles Properties and Paul and Jenny Gillham. The conductor is the rising 30-year-old Pole, Michal Dworzynski.
www.miloskaradaglic.com
Tickets £10 - £27.50. Premium seats £32.50. Book 01273 709709
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