LIQUID MOON

Conductor and piano soloist: James Sherlock

Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84
Artturi Rönkä: Liquid Moon, piano concerto (world premiere)
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, “Tragic”

This richly layered concert draws inspiration from literature. The evening opens with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, based on the tragedy written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The highlight of the concert is the world premiere of Artturi Rönkä’s piano concerto Liquid Moon, with conductor James Sherlock also appearing as soloist. The composer drew inspiration from Marcel Proust’s novel sequence In Search of Lost Time as well as William Carlos Williams’s poem Winter Trees, which contains the phrase “liquid moon”. The concert concludes with Schubert’s Fourth Symphony, known as the “Tragic” Symphony – although its hints of darkness and melancholy never fully take centre stage.