Imagination and Elegance

The final concert in our season offers an evening of music and magic, presented by the magnificent pianist Judith Jáuregui and the masterful conductor Lina González-Granados. Their programme invites us to dream as we travel through a nightscape of spellbinding beauty.

Falla’s enchanting Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Rimsky-Korsakov’s irresistible Scheherazade, inspired by the tales of the One Thousand and One Nights, and Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour bring the 2025-26 season to close in imaginative and elegant style.

Orchestral Colour

Rimsky-Korsakov was a true master of the orchestral palette. His music transports us to far-off, exotic, mysterious places thanks to the many colours he conjures from his instruments. The tales of The Thousand and One Nights inspired his Scheherezade, one of the most vividly descriptive works ever written and one that continues to enthral audiences around the world. Colombian conductor Lina González-Granados has been acclaimed for “her attention to orchestral colours”, a quality that she will also apply to Falla’s impressionistic work for piano and orchestra inspired by the scents, colours and peaceful surroundings of a series of Spanish gardens. We’re very happy that Basque pianist Judith Jáuregui will be our soloist for the evening. Underlining the female focus of this concert, we open with a richly colourful work by contemporary British composer Anna Clyne.