Pekka Kuusisto performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, preceded by Helen Grime's Two Eardley Pictures - I: Catterline in Winter and followed by Stravinsky's ballet score Petrushka.
Two Russian heavyweights and a living Scottish composer are the focus of tonight's prom, featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the direction of chief conductor in waiting Thomas Dausgaard.
Finnish soloist Pekka Kuusisto performs Tchaikovsky's passionate and virtuosic Violin Concerto. It is followed by Petrushka, the first of a trio of landmark Stravinsky ballet scores for the Ballet Russes to be performed by Scottish orchestras.
The concert opens with a world premiere of the first part of a new BBC commission from Helen Grime. Two Eardley Pictures - I: Catterline in Winter was inspired by the landscape paintings of Joan Eardley and folk music of the far north east.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
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Helen Grime
Two Eardley Pictures (Catterline in Winter)
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. -
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Petroc Trelawny |
| Director | Matt Woodward |
| Producer | Serena Cross |
| Conductor | Thomas Dausgaard |
| Orchestra | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
| Performer | Pekka Kuusisto |
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