Year-end concert: Rachmaninov’s Second and Shostakovich’s Waltz

Between Christmas and the fireworks, the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira plays its year-end concert at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Funchal’s 19th-century opera house. The orchestra appears in full symphonic formation under the conductor Luís Andrade.

The soloist is the young pianist Rafael Kyrychenko, winner of the Young Talents competition of Madeira’s conservatory in 2026, in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. After the interval comes Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2, with the Waltz No. 2 that half the world knows without knowing its name.

Good to know

• Monday 28 December at 18:00, at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias in downtown Funchal.
• Tickets had not gone on sale when we wrote this; they are usually sold at the theatre’s box office and through the orchestra’s website.
• The theatre is a few minutes’ walk from the Christmas lights on Avenida Arriaga, so the concert fits well into an evening downtown.