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Shostakovich Festival Overture
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Conductor: Yuri Simonov
Piano: Freddy Kempf
A carefree overture, a notoriously exacting concerto and a gallery stroll that’s picture perfect: Colston Hall end the season with a blistering trio of Russian masterpieces – delivered as only the Russians know how.
Like their Petersburg cousins in January the Muscovites are on home ground exploring a richly resonant all-Russian programme that instantly blows away any cobwebs with Shostakovich’s breezy festive flourish – a white-knuckle-ride overture dashed off in a mere three days! Rachmaninov’s impregnable concerto raises the emotional stakes before Mussorgsky makes an exhibition of himself – The Great Gate of Kiev signing off the season with a fusillade of jubilant triumphalism.
Have a listen to the Moscow Phil here:
Having premiered his symphonies 4 & 13, Shostakovich is in the Moscow Philharmonic’s blood. And under Yuri Simonov, ‘one of the most remarkable conductors before the public today’ (Financial Times) the orchestra remains an unassailable ambassador for Russian music.
After his Colston Hall Beethoven concerto cycle a few years back, Freddy Kempf needs no introduction. Delivered ‘with all the sang-froid of youth and the precision of a top-line artist, Rachmaninov’s 3rd was an even greater triumph’ (New Zealand Herald).
7.30pm, £8.49 – £36. For more info and to book tickets, visit www.colstonhall.org/shows/moscow-philharmonic-orchestra-picture-perfect
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