Tugan Sokhiev conducts at the Royal Festival Hall
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Tugan Sokhiev
Sat 17 May 2008, 7:30pm
Royal Festival Hall, London
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
| Fauré | Pelléas et Mélisande |
|---|---|
| Chopin | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
| Prokofiev | Symphony No. 5 |
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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.
Listen to extracts from Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
DG 469 269-2 (Fauré collection include Requiem, Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini)
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Emanuel Ax/Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
RCA 74321 17892-2 (with Piano Concerto No. 1)
Krystian Zimerman/Polish Festival Orchestra
DG 459 684-2 (with Piano Concerto No. 1)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
DG 463 613-2 (with Stravinsky The Rite of Spring)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
BBC Legends BBCL 4184-2
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Jarvi
Telarc CD-80683
Philharmonia Orchestra/Nikolai Malko
Classics for Pleasure 3 82229 2 (includes Prokofiev Symphonies 1 & 7, Suite The Love of Three Oranges, Tchaikovsky Suite The Nutcracker)
Other recordings by tonight's artists
Chopin Ballades and Scherzos
Emanuel Ax
RCA 82876 72554 2
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