Philharmonia Orchestra: Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

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Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 11 Nov 2010 7:30pm

Tugan Sokhiev

conductor

Akiko Suwanai

violin

Debussy

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No. 2

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4

Dedicated to Tchaikovsky’s friend and close confidant Madame von Meck, the composer wrote in a letter to her that she would find in the Fourth Symphony “an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions”. The opening fanfare motif represented to Tchaikovsky ‘Fate’ preventing him from attaining happiness: a comment made all the more poignant when we realise he composed the work in the aftermath of his catastrophic marriage. Yet the finale is an exciting charge towards the finish line, its enthusiasm and boundless energy outweighing the work’s earlier bleakness.