About this event

Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40

Kristian Sallinen conductor
Craig Ogden guitar
Royal Northern Sinfonia

Music has a rare power to transport us, even if only momentarily, to another place. Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto, the Concierto de Aranjuez, is a prime example of that. Even if just for 20 minutes, you’ll be taken from an autumnal Middlesbrough and instead feel the heat of the Mediterranean sun, enjoying the sights and sounds of yesteryear Spain.

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is, on the surface, full of the composer’s trademark elegance, but underneath the veneer it’s a darker piece. There’s anger, force and passion there; with a dramatic bleakness in the second movement lightened by the scampering rhythm of the hyperactive ending.