Free Audience Tickets to Vinay Parameswaran Conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vinay Parameswaran conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Simon, Ibert and Prokofiev

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Vinay Parameswaran makes his conducting debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leading a grand programme of works by Carlos Simon, Jacques Ibert and Sergey Prokofiev.

The centrepiece, Prokofiev’s seventh and final symphony – an emotional and reflective work completed in 1952, only a year before his death. There are echoes of another seventh in Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, which takes its inspiration from the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, as well as fragments from his journal entries.

Between these two resolute pieces, Ibert’s Flute Concerto – a playfully intricate piece with a pared-back but powerful orchestral part. It’s a challenging showstopper originally written for the legendary flautist Marcel Moyse, but here, picking up the gauntlet in their BBC Symphony Orchestra debut is BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and flautist Elizaveta Ivanova.

Programme:

Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers

Jacques Ibert Flute Concerto

Sergey Prokofiev Symphony No. 7

Vinay Parameswaran conductor

Elizaveta Ivanova flute

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Vinay Parameswaran

How to be in the audience

Step 1: Apply for tickets

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Age limit: 8+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult at all times)