Copenhagen Phil: Jazz meets the orchestra

For the past 100 years, many classical composers have used jazz as inspiration - on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, Copenhagen Phil combines music from the first part of the 20th century by the Americans Charles Ives and Georges Gershwin with new music by two performing musicians, who both have their feet firmly planted in both classical music and jazz - and not least in the borderland between the two genres; the American saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli and the Danish pianist Carsten Dahl.

Carsten Dahl has written a new double concerto for two pianos for pianists Martin Qvist Hansen and Søren Rastogi - a commissioned work from Copenhagen Phil, which will be played for the very first time at the concert in the Queen's Hall. Here will also be the opportunity to experience Charles Ive's completely personal version of the ragtime music he heard in Connecticut in the 1890s - and to hear music from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess; the gripping tale of the poor cripple, his girlfriend, and their struggle for love among the weakest of society in a black environment in South Carolina.