Mozart/Mark Simpson/Mahler
19:30
Sat 15 Jun 2019
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
The prodigiously talented Mark Simpson is the only person to have won both the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Composer of the Year awards. Tonight, both of Simpson’s parallel musical lives are on show, as the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic’s Composer in Association gives the world premiere of his own Clarinet Concerto.
Tonight’s other soloist, leading British soprano Elizabeth Watts, is on double duty: tackling three Mozart arias to open the programme, then returning to end the season with Mahler’s soulful but uplifting Fourth Symphony.