Philharmonia Orchestra: Temirkanov: Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky Series

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Temirkanov: Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky Series

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 24 Jun 2010 7:30pm

Yuri Temirkanov

conductor

Denis Matsuev

piano

Tchaikovsky

'Polonaise', Eugene Onegin

Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 3

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 5

The Philharmonia’s Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky series begins with Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, which took the composer some years to complete. He combined material originally intended for other works with newly composed themes, to great success: years later he wrote to Aram Khachaturian, “It’s very difficult to write a concerto. A concerto must have new ideas. I advise you to jot down all the ideas as they occur to you without waiting for the thing as a whole to mature. Make a note of individual passages and interesting bits, not necessarily in the right order.” In contrast Tchaikovsky composed his Fifth Symphony in a matter of months: unified throughout by a motto-theme, the despairing opening and emotional climaxes are gradually converted into a blazing major-key ending.