Grieg with Martin James Bartlett

Firebird’s next concert of the season features the BBC Young Musician of the Year winner, pianist Martin James Bartlett performing two classical greats…

Be inspired by this programme of great romance as we head to Scandinavia for an evening of artic wonder. The first half of the concert features Grieg’s ever-popular Piano Concerto – described by Rachmaninov as ‘the greatest piano concerto ever written’. This really is a work filled with passion and beauty. 

Martin James Bartlett returns to Firebird after his captivating performance of Mozart’s D Minor Piano Concerto earlier this year. 

The second half of the concert features the sublime Fifth Symphony by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. 

The inspirational theme of the final movement of Sibelius’s Symphony No.5 came into the composer’s mind while he was climbing in the mountains of Finland. He saw sixteen swans pass over him in flight and wrote in this diary ‘this was the greatest day of my life.‘

Guest Conductor George Jackson conducts this wonderful concert as part of our fabulous 2024-2025 season.

Grieg with Martin James Bartlett

Tuesday 19 November 2024
St George’s Hanover Square
2A Mill Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1FX

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82

London Firebird Orchestra
Guest Conductor George Jackson
Piano Martin James Bartlett