Philharmonia Orchestra: Sokhiev conducts in Bedford

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Sokhiev conducts in Bedford

Bedford Corn Exchange
Fri 12 Oct 2012 7:30pm

Tugan Sokhiev

conductor

Nikolai Tokarev

piano

Mendelssohn

Overture, The Hebrides

Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 2

Elgar

Enigma Variations

This concert is part of the following series:
Bedford 12/13 Season
Bedford 12/13 Season

Musical inspiration comes in all forms. Mendelssohn’s elemental ‘Hebridean’ overture sprang from a stormy encounter with the rugged seascape of the Western Highlands. Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto (actually written before the First) was one of the last pieces he wrote in his native Poland before he moved, and Polish themes come through loud and clear – most notably in the finale’s mazurka feel. The catalyst for Elgar’s perennially popular Enigma Variations was altogether more domestic. A light-hearted piano-side reverie caught his wife’s attention. Elgar then extemporised on its theme around various friends and acquaintances. The rest, as they say, is history…