Also this evening :
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund recital
Click here to book tickets on the Southbank Centre Website, or telephone the Ticket Office on 0871 663 2515.
This concert is a journey through the extremes of human emotion and creativity. From the opulent romance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, through enchanted lullabies and demonic dancing to the blazingly optimistic finale of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, this is music that will fire the imagination and lift the spirit.
Read Jukka-Pekka Saraste's biography.
Read Nikolai Lugansky's biography.
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
(with Symphonic Dances)
Decca 430 733-2
(as above plus Symphonies Nos. 1-3)
Decca 455 798-2
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninov/Philadelphia Orchestra/Leopold Stokowski
(with Piano Concerto No. 3)
Naxos 8.110601
Leif Ove Andsnes/Berlin Philharmonic/Antonio Pappano
(with Piano Concerto No. 1)
EMI 5 18184 2
Nikolai Lugansky/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
(Complete piano concertos; Paganini Rhapsody; Corelli Variations; Chopin Variations)
Warner Classics 2564 63675 2
Stephen Hough/Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton
Hyperion CDA67501/2
Augustin Anievas/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Moshe Atzmon
(Complete piano concertos, as above plus Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos & Aldo Ceccato conductors; 24 Préludes)
EMI 5 00871-2
STRAVINSKY The Firebird
Suite (1945)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
(with Petrushka/The Rite of Spring)
Decca 473 731-2
Complete ballet
Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft
(with Petrushka)
Naxos 8.557500
Finale
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Igor Stravinsky
(with Agon/Apollo/Symphony in Three Movements)
BBC Legends BBCL 4253-2
Nikolai Lugansky performing other repertoire
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, including Appassionata and Moonlight
Warner Classics 2564 62300 2
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting other repertoire
SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 5
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Ultima 0630-18962-2
SIBELIUS Symphonies 3, 6 & 7; Kullervo
Monica Groop; Jorma Hynninen/The Polytech Choir/Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ultima 3984-21348-2
Other Finnish repertoire
MAGNUS LINDBERG Sculpture/Campana in aria/Concerto for Orchestra
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
Ondine 1124-2
ALSO THIS EVENING:
This concert is a journey through the extremes of human emotion and creativity. From the opulent romance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, through enchanted lullabies and demonic dancing to the blazingly optimistic finale of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, this is music that will fire the imagination and lift the spirit.
Read Jukka-Pekka Saraste's biography.
Read Nikolai Lugansky's biography.
ALSO THIS EVENING:
