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Pictures at an Exhibition

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, Eivind Gullberg Jensen leads the Philharmonia in Borodin and Mussorgsky and is joined by Gil Shaham for Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto.

Vivid colours and lyricism are the order of the day for this concert, given by the Philharmonia and Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen.

Gill Shaham is the acclaimed soloist in Prokofiev's 1935 Second Violin Concerto which outwardly seems to conform to the requirements of Socialist Realism, yet whose string of memorable melodies is somehow reserved and equivocal. Two orchestral showpieces bookend the programme. The first, by music's most famous chemist, comes at the rousing end of Act 2 of Borodin's opera Prince Igor, as the Polovtsians prepare to launch an invasion into Russia. Ravel's glittering, ever-popular orchestration of Mussorgsky's gallery stroll ends the concert in spectacular style.

Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Martin Handley.

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, in G minor, Op. 63

8.25 pm
Interval music (from CD)
Bach/Rachmaninov : Suite (from Partita for violin in E major, BWV. 1006)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Tchaikovsky (arr. Samuil Feinberg): Allegro molto vivace (Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 "Path茅tique")
Arcadi Volodos (piano)

8.45 pm
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition

Gil Shaham (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 7 Apr 2022 19:30
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Music Played

  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.63

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude from Violin Partita in E major, BWV 1006

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Gavotte)

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue from Partita No 3 in E for solo violin (transcr. for piano by Rachmaninov)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • DG.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B Minor 'Pathetique' (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Samuil Feinberg. Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Volodos: Piano Transcriptions.
    • Sony.
    • 12.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk Suite

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DG.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in B minor Op. 61 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Thu 7 Apr 2022 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 3