Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov – The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh: symphonic pictures
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto, Op.35
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op.36
Performers
Yuri Temirkanov – Conductor
Julia Fischer – Violin
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
German violinist Julia Fischer joins the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra for its second concert, as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s much-loved Violin Concerto - a work in which concert-hall sophistication balances rustic folk-simplicity, overflowing with tunes and climaxing in a dazzling rondo finale. Big tunes - or, at least, one big tune - also dominate Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations, his affectionate musical portrait of friends and acquaintances. The concert opens with one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s finest scores, the ‘three symphonic pictures’ adapted from his 1907 opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - a work sometimes nicknamed ‘the Russian Parsifal'.