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Celebrating 25 years of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme

Russian Romantics share the stage in this programme featuring the latest rising star of the piano to join ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme – Julius Asal.  And conductor Elena Schwarz also makes her debut with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.

Opening the concert we have Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Concerto – an early, Chopin-esque work, but with clear signs of the composer’s own distinct voice breaking through. Scriabin and Rachmaninov – both virtuoso pianists as well as composers – performed the work, sometimes even together with Scriabin playing and Rachmaninov conducting.

°Â³ó±ð²ÔÌýSergey Rachmaninov composed his evocative É³Ù³Ü»å±ð²õ-°Õ²¹²ú±ô±ð²¹³Ü³æ (‘Study-Pictures’) for piano, he kept his inspirations to himself, hoping that audiences would imagine their own pictures instead. Almost twenty years later, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi set out to orchestrate a selection, Rachmaninov divulged some of the images that had come to mind when writing the pieces: a fair, the sea, children’s tales, and marches.

Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
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Elena Schwarz conductor
Julius Asal piano
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra