Barber's Adagio & Violin Concerto

The orchestra performs Barber's Adagio and Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang, plus Schulhoff and Weill, conducted by Ryan Bancroft.

Ryan Bancroft conducts an evening of orchestral music centred on two works by Samuel Barber. Violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs the Violin Concerto, and the orchestra also plays Barber's famous Adagio, familiar from films such as Platoon and The Elephant Man. The programme opens with Schulhoff's jazz-tinged Suite for Chamber Orchestra and closes with Kurt Weill's Second Symphony.