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Beethoven in New York: sinfonia ViVA with Uri Caine

Tuesday 21st October 2008 at 7.30pm
Assembly Rooms, Derby
Tickets: £12, concessions £10, £8 concert season subscribers
Box Office: 01332 255800
Online booking available

Uri Caine - photo credit Bill Douthart

Beethoven in New York... sinfonia ViVA with Principal Conductor André de Ridder explores the intriguing theme of the collision between the composer and America in a programme featuring the celebrated New York jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine.

The concert opens in bold style with Caine's exciting, brand new commission for chamber orchestra. Then it's on to Beethoven himself, and the complex and rhythmically driven Grosse Fugue, now regarded as one of the composer's finest works, in its version for string orchestra. We turn to Mozart next - the first movement of his famous Piano Sonata in C as only Caine can play it. And finally, the mastery of the soloist gets full reign as Caine joins the Orchestra to play his own typically free-thinking new take on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations - variations upon variations, if you like.

Experience the influence of the great composer in this present-day tribute to his all-embracing, time-travelling legacy.

This programme may also be heard at St.George's, Bristol on Friday 24th October 2008

Read Uri Caine's thoughts on the classical-jazz dynamic

Supported by Rolls-Royce plc, The Foyle Foundation, Orchestras Live and Arts Council England

Photo credit: Uri Caine - Bill Douthart