Philharmonia Orchestra: Ashkenazy conducts in London

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A fascinating programme that finds two creative giants, towards the end of their respective careers, composing with bracing inventiveness and insight. The unbearably poignant Death in Venice was Britten's final opera, composed as a tribute to his beloved partner, the tenor Peter Pears. This was during the early 1970s when Shostakovich was concurrently working on his last Symphony, a tour-de-force of coruscating ingenuity that includes a number of musical quotations, including a snippet from Rossini's William Tell. When asked about it, Shostakovich reasoned that 'I don't quite know myself why the quotations are there, but I could not not include them.'

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Ashkenazy conducts in London

Oct 17 2013, 19:30 - Royal Festival Hall

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Stravinsky's Four Norwegian Moods before being joined by Patricia Kopatchinskaja for the Violin Concerto. Also performed tonight is Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.

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