Name: Russian Classics
Start: 2014-09-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-09-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Usher Hall

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Dirigent

Donald Runnicles

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Barry Douglas

Piano

Russian Classics

Edinburgh

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Usher Hall

Public

Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20

Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, op. 93

A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Jnanakumar P

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A horn calls softly, a piano dreams in the twilight, and Scriabin’s Piano Concerto begins its enchanted journey. That’s the centrepiece of the opening concert of our season: the finest piano concerto Rachmaninov never wrote, played by a soloist celebrated for his interpretations of the Russian piano repertoire. It’s a very different world from Shostakovich’s shattering Tenth Symphony. A heartfelt cry for freedom written under the shadow of Stalinism, it’s still one of the 20th century’s most overwhelming symphonic experiences. Donald Runnicles conducts, and opens the concert by whipping up a storm with Mussorgsky’s exciting orchestral showpiece.

Prelude: 3.00pm (free to ticket-holders)
Alexandra Smith from the University of Edinburgh discusses the cultural context of each of the composers in this concert.

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Russian Classics by Scriabin, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Van (2014/2014), Dirigent Donald Runnicles, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Verenigd Koninkrijk

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