Orchestra
Age of Anxiety
BBC Philharmonic
- Great for groups
- Date
- Sat, 16 Jan 2027
- Time
- 19:30
- Venue
- The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
- City
- Manchester
- Conductor
- Roderick Cox
- Tickets
- See booking site
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Summary
Roderick Cox leads the BBC Philharmonic at The Bridgewater Hall in Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, featuring pianist Hayato Sumino in Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety and Jennifer Higdon’s Fanfare Ritmico.
Why it's fantastic
Leonard Bernstein’s symphony sets the pace here, casting the piano as a restless protagonist navigating a jazz-inflected urban landscape. It is a brilliant showcase for Hayato Sumino, leading into Prokofiev’s powerful wartime symphony that was written to celebrate the human spirit. The resulting evening feels both rhythmically charged and deeply cinematic.
Programme
- 01Jennifer Higdon: Fanfare Ritmico
- 02Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No 2 ’The Age of Anxiety’
- 03Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Soloists
- Hayato Sumino piano