London Philharmonic Orchestra: Rachmaninov: Inside Out at Royal Festival Hall, London on Wednesday 3rd December 2014

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

Rachmaninov: Inside Out

Add to my Calendar 03-12-2014 19:30 03-12-2014 21:30 36 London Philharmonic Orchestra The Orchestra performs sublime music by Rachmaninoff and his contemporary Scriabin. A crowd of self-serving music critics queued up to dismiss Rachmaninoff's First Symphony in 1897. But among them there was one opposing voice. Nikolay Findeisen wrote of the Symphony's 'beauty, novelty and inspiration', recognising its huge emotional range and the highly alluring way in which Rachmaninoff captures a sense of impending tragedy right from the first page (perhaps his own desperate love for a married woman). It's easy to see the influence Rachmaninoff had on his younger classmate at the Moscow Conservatory, Alexander Scriabin. When he wrote his Piano Concerto in 1896, Scriabin was deeply in love, too, and it shows in the music's fluent elegance and supreme delicacy. Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm - Free pre-concert event. Professor Stephen Downes, a specialist in 20th century repertoire, looks at the often overlooked influence of Scriabin. Free Royal Festival Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Wednesday 3rd December 2014
7:30 PM

Programme

Karol Szymanowski – Concert Overture, Op.12
Aleksandr Scriabin – Piano Concerto, Op.20
Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphony no.1 in D minor, Op.13

Performers

Vladimir Jurowski – Conductor
Igor Levit – piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme Note

The Orchestra performs sublime music by Rachmaninoff and his contemporary Scriabin.

A crowd of self-serving music critics queued up to dismiss Rachmaninoff's First Symphony in 1897. But among them there was one opposing voice. Nikolay Findeisen wrote of the Symphony's 'beauty, novelty and inspiration', recognising its huge emotional range and the highly alluring way in which Rachmaninoff captures a sense of impending tragedy right from the first page (perhaps his own desperate love for a married woman).

It's easy to see the influence Rachmaninoff had on his younger classmate at the Moscow Conservatory, Alexander Scriabin. When he wrote his Piano Concerto in 1896, Scriabin was deeply in love, too, and it shows in the music's fluent elegance and supreme delicacy.

Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm - Free pre-concert event. Professor Stephen Downes, a specialist in 20th century repertoire, looks at the often overlooked influence of Scriabin. Free

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