MANCHESTER Camerata’s Ulverston concert season concludes on Thursday, April 16 (7.30pm) at the Coronation Hall with a dramatic programme featuring Barber’s Adagio for Strings, one of the most recognisable pieces of 20th Century classical music, written in 1938 and used regularly in film scores and by contemporary music producers.

The performance also sees the camerata's music director Gábor Takács-Nagy’s background in chamber music come to the fore as he brings his unique and personal insights to Beethoven’s String Quartet in F minor, Op 95, arranged for full string orchestra by Gustav Mahler.

Although Mahler is best remembered as a composer, in his lifetime he was better known as a conductor, and it's in this context that he made versions of works by earlier composers - works that he could perform in his concerts, hence his orchestral arrangement of Beethoven's F minor quartet.

The eclectic concert programme also features Chopin’s dazzling and romantic Piano Concerto no 2 performed by Croatian pianist Dejan Lazic, whose fresh interpretations of the classics have marked him out as one of the most unique soloists of his generation.

He has appeared with orchestras such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Netherlands Philharmonic, and in summer 2014 Dejan made his debut with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival with Krzysztof Urbanski, and at the Aspen Festival, appearing both as soloist and composer, performing the world premiere of his Piano Concerto in Istrian Style.

He also gave a recital at the Lanaudiére Festival in Canada, which immediately asked him back for this year's Scriabin anniversary.

Dejan - who was brought up in Salzburg, Austria, where he studied at the Mozarteum - will open the Ulverston concert with Britten’s energetic Young Apollo, inspired by Keat’s unfinished poem Hesperion, and written for string quartet and string orchestra.

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