Stockport Symphony Orchestra - Jennifer Pike's Tchaikovsky and Firebird

SibeliusFinlandia
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
SibeliusKarelia Suite
Stravinsky The FirebirdConductor -Robert GuyViolin - Jennifer PikeA spectacular end to our 2025/6 season of dance-inspired programmes. Some rousing Finnish music opens both halves of the concert. After Finlandia, we are delighted to welcome back to Stockport Town Hall the fabulous Jennifer Pike with the ever-popular Tchaikovsky concerto which she first played with the SSO in 2018. Time flies!In the second half, after Karelia, we bring you the dance feature. And what a feature to close the season! Stravinsky's Firebird premiered at Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in Paris in 1910 and propelled the composer to instant fame and success. Diaghilev is said to have remarked in rehearsal "Mark him well, he is a man on the eve of celebrity ". And so it proved. Firebird may not have prompted the alleged riots which accompanied his Rite of Spring a few years later but it led directly to his commissions for that ballet and for Petrushka , propelling him to the forefront of the musical world and cementing his place as one of the giants of 20th century music.