The Planets

WALTON Battle in the Air (from Battle of Britain) BLISS Piano Concerto HOLST Suite, The Planets

ANDREW MANZE conductor MARK BEBBINGTON piano SOPRANOS AND ALTOS OF THE ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

So you think you know British music? Everyone loves Jupiter from Holst’s The Planets, but tonight you’ll hear so much more as Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Manze takes the Orchestra on a voyage to infinity and beyond. We’ll join William Walton in a Spitfire over wartime London – and travel to 1939 New York, where the young British firebrand Arthur Bliss brings the house down with a volcano of a piano concerto played by Mark Bebbington.