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Piano - Yuja Wang
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No.2
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete ballet score)
Unlike the opening work, based on liturgical references, Prokofiev's 1913 Second Piano Concerto apparently terrified and scandalised the audience, some of whom dived for the exits! There is, of course, nothing to fear and much to admire in this extraordinary work, combining full-blooded, romantic tunes with the blistering, brittle keyboard virtuosity that characterised the young Prokofiev.
When Stravinsky was approached by Ballet Russes founder Diaghilev to write the score for The Firebird he was relatively unknown as a composer, and the highly successful première of the ballet in 1910 brought him enormous acclaim. The music is widely-known as a popular orchestral suite, but the full power and originality of this remarkable score is revealed here in a performance of the complete ballet.
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