Hakan Hardenberger with the RCM Symphony Orchestra trailer

Described as ’the best trumpet player in the galaxy’ by The Times, Håkan Hardenberger returns to the Royal College of Music to conduct two virtuosic and evocative concertos alongside RCM trumpeters.
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Dispelling the Fears features Joshua Cusworth on trumpet and takes its inspiration from a painting by Heather Betts, which takes its inspiration from a painting by Heather Betts, a beautiful piece which plays on darkness and light.
Folke Rabe’s Sardine Sarcophagus features Euan Scott on trumpet. Inspired by the oil-on-panel painting The Burial of the Sardine by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, this rhythmic and vast work evokes the empty factory that houses Bergen's Music Factory Festival. w
To finish, the RCM Symphony Orchestra explores Ravel's arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, featuring the unforgettable melodies of ’The Great Gate of Kiev’.