Strasbourg Philharmonic

Name: Strasbourg Philharmonic
Start: 2027-02-12T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Royal Concert Hall

Fri 12 Feb 2027 at 7:30PM

Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

Main Auditorium

From Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 10:00AM

Fri 12 Feb 2027

7:30PM

From Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 10:00AM

Show times are subject to change and published where available.

Booking Dates:
Subscribers: 10am Tue 26 May
Multibuy: 10am Mon 1 June
General on sale: 10am Mon 8 June

Tickets £13 - £44.50

Strasbourg Philharmonic
Aziz Shokhakimov Conductor
Maria Ioudenitch Violin

Richard Strauss Don Juan
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1
Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2

Polarised musical characters are at the heart of this programme beginning with Richard Strauss's awesome tone poem, Don Juan. Eduard Hanslick exclaimed seeing audiences 'exalting the Don Juan with such enthusiasm that it seemed as though shivers of delight were running up and down their spines', a statement which holds as true today as its two major themes of love and damnation battle within its bold programmatic colours. Having developed a distinct musical language by its 1923 premiere, Prokofiev's masterstroke was to begin his First Violin Concerto with a dreamlike sound guaranteed to leave listeners perplexed, only to shatter their perception with its dissonant and volatile Scherzo. Dazzling us last in 2024, Maria Ioudenitch returns to showcase her blistering agility and romantic tenderness.

The chilling bells toll midnight - and the second half of this concert - summoning the supernatural Danse Macabre. Previous composers wouldn't dare to use the devil's dissonance (the tritone), inventively weaved into Saint-Saens's ominous tuning ritual which launches into a captivatingly ghoulish waltz. Tchaikovsky packs a lot into his shortest symphony, the Second, a bright odyssey through the lens of the composer's younger life. Without a slow movement, its three joyous Ukrainian folk melodies have no time to settle - only artfully transform - as they’re swept up as the sprint towards the symphony’s scintillating finale.

Free pre-concert talk, 6.20pm in the auditorium: Dr Sophie Redfern introduces the programme.

Part of

Nottingham Classics

Age Guidance: 7+

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult aged 18+

Running time: Doors: 6.00pm. Running time – 1st Half: 7.30pm - 8.15pm, 20 minute interval, 2nd Half: 8.35pm - 9.25pm

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