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| When: | |
Saturday 31 January 2009 at 19:30 |
| Where: | |
Royal Festival Hall, London |
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| Performers: | |
Philharmonia Orchestra Tugan Sokhiev, conductor Nikolai Demidenko, piano |
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| Programme : | | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov |
| 1: | | Capriccio Espagnole |
| Dmitry Shostakovich | |
| 2: | | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in F, Op 102 |
| Sergey Rachmaninov | |
| 3: | | Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27 |
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Rachmaninov’s great Second Symphony was composed a full 12 years after the spectacular failure of his First, which had plunged him into a profound and long-lasting depression. He pronounced himself very unhappy with the first draft of the score, and it went through months of revision before he conducted its triumphant première in 1908. Today it remains one of the most popular symphonies in the orchestral repertoire, loved particularly for the intensely romantic slow movement at its heart – a quality that it shares with Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, although Shostakovich’s romance is, on this occasion, more mournful and elegiac than that of Rachmaninov. |
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| Venue: | |
Royal Festival Hall Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX England |
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