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Marc-André Hamelin – piano
Thomas Hull – conductor
Ruth Rogers – leader
Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra
The Festival Orchestra brings the curtain down on the 2026 Festival with two magnificent cornerstones of the Romantic era. Brahms’ monumental 2nd piano concerto represents the culmination of everything that Brahms had learned as a lifelong connoisseur of pianistic technique, and Schubert’s profound final symphony, the “Great”, confident, outgoing, discursive and expansive in nature.
The grand romantic manner comes easily to Hamelin. Modern discipline, too, and his combination of finger power, firm engineering, caressing gentleness and playful wit makes him a natural for Brahms’s second piano concerto’ (The Times)
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major, op. 83
SCHUBERT: Symphony no.9 in C major, D.944 “The Great”.