Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Cambridge Classical Concert Series 2016 - 2017.

Conductor - Yuri Botnari
Piano - Freddy Kempf

Programme:
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Rachmaninov - Concerto No. 2
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

For the penultimate concert in this year’s series, former Artist in Residence Freddy Kempf makes a welcome return, conducted by the celebrated conductor Yuri Botnari.

Shostakovich’s Festive Overture has been described by Russian musicologist Lev Lebedinsky as a 'brilliant effervescent work…its vivacious energy spilling over like uncorked champagne!'

There is no better interpreter of Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2 than Freddy Kempf, whose dazzling virtuosic skills are displayed right through to the finale’s tempestuous climax. Mussorgsky’s richly textured Pictures at an Exhibition concludes this outstanding concert.