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RUSSIAN PASSIONS: RACHMANINOFF AND TCHAIKOVSKY
A bewitching and exhilarating concert that glows in the sun and ends in the tempests of hell.
Three Russians make for a richly coloured and exhilarating concert. Liadov's jewel-like miniature has all the ingredients of the best Russian fairytales: it's haunting, mysterious and malevolent, and it's bewitching to the ear!
The irresistible melodies of Rachmaninoff's best-loved piano concerto sound as if they could be pop songs - and in fact several of them are.
The program ends with the whirling passion of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasia after Dante - a story of illicit love, murder and the tempests of hell.
And for his Sydney Symphony debut, Thomas Sanderling has chosen music by Peter Sculthorpe: the extrovert sounds, flowing melodies and entrancing rhythms of Sun Song.
LIADOV Kikimora
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.2
SCULTHORPE Sun Song (1984)
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini
Thomas Sanderling conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Russian Passions - Rachmanioff and Tchaikovsky
Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: 15 - 16 August
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