London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gerfiev are joined by Soloists Denis Matsuev and Sarah Chang in Performances of Russian Music

By -
The London Symphony Orchestra performs an all-Russian programme with its Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev on 21 February. Acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuev is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, written during a summer trip to Brittany. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 complete the programme.

On 23 February violinist Sarah Chang will perform Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto with the LSO. The concert opens with Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from his opera Peter Grimes, and Gergiev conducts the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth (‘Pathetique’) Symphony as part of his cycle of the complete symphonies.

The LSO follows its concerts at the Barbican with a tour to China, in partnership for the first time with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd with four concerts in Beijing and Shanghai in March 2012. The orchestra also travels to Korea for two concerts in Seoul in February 2012.

Tuesday 21 February 7.30pm, Barbican
TCHAIKOVSKY Overture: Romeo and Juliet
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5

Valery Gergiev conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: £10-£35

Thursday 23 February 7.30pm, Barbican
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’)

Valery Gergiev conductor
Sarah Chang violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: £10-£35

Thursday 23 February 6pm, Barbican
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican

SHOSTAKOVICH 2 Pieces for Octet
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence

Giovanni Guzzo violin
Roberto Gonzalez violin
Viktor Stenjems violin
Pablo Hernan violin
Adam Newman viola
Tetsuumi Nagata viola
Brian O’Kane cello
Timothy Lowe cello

Free entry

Monday 27 February 8pm, Seoul Arts Centre
TCHAIKOVSKY Overture: Romeo and Juliet
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5

Valery Gergiev conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday 28 February 8pm, Seoul Arts Centre
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’)

Valery Gergiev conductor
Sarah Chang violin
London Symphony Orchestra

Thursday 1 March 7.30pm, Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’)

Valery Gergiev conductor
Sarah Chang violin
London Symphony Orchestra

Friday 2 March 7.30pm, Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts
TCHAIKOVSKY Overture: Romeo and Juliet
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5

Valery Gergiev conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Sunday 4 March 7.30pm, Shanghai Grand Theatre
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (‘Pathétique’)

Valery Gergiev conductor
Sarah Chang violin
London Symphony Orchestra

Monday 5 March 7.30pm, Shanghai Grand Theatre
TCHAIKOVSKY Overture: Romeo and Juliet
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5

Valery Gergiev conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
London Symphony Orchestra


Secure online booking at lso.co.uk
Box office: 020 7638 8891, open Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–8pm
In person at the Advance Box Office in the Barbican Centre
(Mon–Sat 10am–9pm; Sun 12pm–9pm)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Role of Music in Opera

By -
There are numerous books on the topic, and every composer, librettist, director, singer and audience member has their opinion as to what role the music should play in an opera. In a play without music, the words ought to support the meaning behind a character's actions. However, in the case of action movies, often times the action is what tells the story and there aren't words, just images to forward the plot. We might hear music to accompany action, build tension, but the action tells the story. Musicals tend to speak until the emotion of the moment just "has" to break out in song - unless it's something like "Mama Mia" where the dialog is the rails we travel on between songs; the songs themselves, written before the concept of the musical, are the focus of the production, while the story is secondary. Operas are a different beast. The music provides emotion to the words spoken, but it also plays the role of ambience when there is only action. In &quo
Read more

Episode 210b: Joyeuse le départ

By -
Image
Podcast:  Play in new window  |  Download Subscribe:  Apple Podcasts  |  Android  |  Google Play  |  Stitcher  |  TuneIn  |  RSS Provost Cunningham has Transmigrated, but to where! What is Dr Sage going to do with his body? And how can she bring home her friends, Abigail and Erasmus, without also bring home Cunningham? What are they going to say when they find the “skeleton” she’s hiding in her closet? Cast: Eddie Louise Clark  as Dr Sage Chip Clark  as Professor Savant Justin Bremer  as the Narrator Emily Riley Piatt  as Abigail Entwhistle, Calypso & Dean Stewart Written by  Eddie Louise Theme music by  Unwoman Sound Design by  Chip Michael
Read more

The Art of String Quartets by Brian Ferneyhough

By -
Image
When an artist sets paint to canvas, there are brush strokes used for different effects. Sometimes those strokes are subtle, imperceptible; they produce works of art like the Mona Lisa . Other times the very obvious nature of the stroke is the art, as in works by Van Gogh. With some composers of music, the notes on the page are their craft. How those notes translate into an aural experience is what defines some composers as great artists. Brian Ferneyhough has a masterful command of the techniques of putting notes on the page. These techniques are sometimes so subtle, even though written in black and white, they escape detection. Some of what he attempts with his music is just that, to escape detection, to bury the framework, diverting the ear away from the structure, so only the music is heard . The subtlety is so fine it is almost imperceptible. Even though he studied at several institutions, he is considered self-taught, studying scores from Boule
Read more