Howard_ The Butterfly Effect (Mark Wigglesworth_Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)

Howard: The Butterfly Effect (Mark Wigglesworth/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
霍華德：《蝴蝶效應》（馬克威格爾斯沃思/伯恩茅斯交響樂團）

416 views Oct 24, 2025 LIGHTHOUSE, POOLE'S CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth launches our season with a piece by our Celebrated Composer for 2025/26 season: Dani Howard's The Butterfly Effect. In the same way a butterfly flapping its wings in one location can launch a sequence of events that will cause a hurricane elsewhere, Howard's piece builds on a small musical idea and takes it to extraordinary heights.

Mark is then joined by Sir Stephen Hough to perform Rachmaninov's youthful First Piano Concerto.
After the success of his Second and Third Piano Concertos, Rachmaninov revised the First in 1917. It is very different from his later works; in exchange for less memorable melodies, this concerto incorporates elements of youthful vivacity and impetuosity in a concise and spirited fashion.

After the interval, Mark returns for an explosive performance of Shostakovitch's Tenth Symphony. It is now widely regarded as Shostakovich’s finest work in the genre – a perfect balance of expressive qualities and political meaning. This is music that sums up all that Shostakovich wanted to say about living under Stalin’s oppression, inspiring us through his resilience of spirit, determination, and courage to hold on to the truth, when even truth itself was under threat.

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