Romantics and Radicals

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This final concert of the season juxtaposes Schumann’s intensely lyrical cello concerto and Tchaikovsky’s poignant Andante Cantabile , performed by St Cecilia’s principal cellist, Helen Dawson, with works by two of the early 20th Century’s most radical composers, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky: The ‘Classical’ Symphony, which meshes the tradition of clarity and formality with the renegade spirit of Prokofiev’s early works, and the ’Pulcinella Suite’, which Stravinsky called the ’epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible’.