Ahmed Dickinson, The Bath Festival Orchestra conducted by Peter Manning play Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra

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Ahmed Dickinson and The Bath Festival Orchestra to perform Villa-Lobos Concerto

Kings' Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Thursday 16th June 8:00 pm

The Bath Festival Orchestra embarks on a journey through South America, starting off in Brazil with Villa-Lobos’ Guitar Concerto, starring renowned soloist Ahmed Dickinson.

This piece is followed by an all-strings programme, in which the BFO will first visit Cuba – with more modern sounds by Leo Brouwer in his Canciones Remotas, then move through Venezuela with the beautiful Serenade for Strings by ‘Valkyrie of the Piano’ Teresa Carreño, who was fortunate to have seen many parts of the world in her own journeys. The evening ends with a bang in Argentina with a performance of Alberto Ginastera’s full-of-fireworks Concerto for Strings. Heitor Villa-lobos

Guitar Concerto, W501

Leo Brouwer

Canciones Remotas

Maria Teresa Carreno

Serenade for StringsA

Alberto Ginastera

Concerto for Strings, Op. 33

Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas

guitar

Peter Manning

conductor

Bath Festival Orchestra

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