Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski, Sergei Leiferkus
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Flying The Flag: Images Of Russia
Programme to include:
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (vers. orig.)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Coronation scene from Boris Godunov
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Clock scene from Boris Godunov
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Funeral bell & Death of Boris from Boris Godunov
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 (Winter Daydreams)
An all-Russian programme, in both programme and soloists. At its centrepiece are scenes from Mussorgsky's dark-hued opera Boris Godunov with star baritone Sergei Leiferkus.
Night on a Bare Mountain is one of those pieces which hi-fi shops use to impress customers, but it is of course better with no hi-fi in the way - live. It's an explosive start to tonight's programme which concludes with Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, a work inspired by Russian life and folk music of which the composer himself said was 'better than any of my other more mature works'.
Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
The OAE plays on period instruments aiming to recreate the sounds and styles of performance that would have been familiar to composers in their own…
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Vladimir Jurowski
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Sergei Leiferkus
Russian-born baritone with an international reputation.
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Royal Festival Hall
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Royal Festival Hall
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