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This concert is part of the following series:
Spring-Summer 2007/08

To book tickets please call Southbank Centre Ticket Office on 0871 663 2515 or to book online click here.

Prokofiev returned to Russia permanently in 1933, during a period when the political system was placing harsh restraints on composers’ creativity and musical expression. This climate continued until Prokofiev’s death in 1953, which makes his Symphony No. 5 all the more remarkable in its optimism and brightness. It was conceived by Prokofiev as “a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mankind”. Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is similarly hopeful in its expressive content. It was composed when Chopin was only 19, already an internationally successful pianist, and full of (unrequited) love: circumstances that conspired to produce a romantic and moving work.

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Read Tugan Sokhiev's biography.

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Listen to extracts from Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

 

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Other recordings by tonight's artists

Chopin Ballades and Scherzos
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