RSNO 2024/25: night-sky-blue

General tickets on sale from Monday 13 May 2024

night-sky-blue

Debussy orch Stokowski – Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque

Helen Grime – Trumpet Concerto night-sky-blue

Takemitsu – How Slow the Wind

Rachmaninov – Isle of the Dead

Nodoka Okisawa, Conductor

Håkan Hardenberger, Trumpet

Some music just captures a certain mood. Debussy basks in silvery moonlight and conjures a melody to haunt your dreams. Rachmaninov loses himself in a painting and takes a surprisingly passionate journey into darkness. Guest conductor Nodoka Okisawa savours both tonight in a concert which just brims with atmosphere, whether it’s the delicacy of Tōru Takemitsu’s How Slow the Wind or Helen Grime’s musical skyscape for Håkan Hardenberger. The world’s greatest classical trumpeter? We think so – but hearing is believing…