Thomas Dausgaard conducts Tchaikovsky
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This event took place on Sunday 1 May 2016.
- Sunday 1 May 2016
- Reading The Hexagon
Thomas Dausgaard conducts Tchaikovsky
Sun 1 May 2016
Reading The Hexagon
Need to know
Repertoire
- Sibelius Finlandia
- Schumann Piano Concerto in a Minor
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4
Features
- Thomas Dausgaard Conductor
- Khatia Buniatishvili Piano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
With one of music’s greatest melodies, Sibelius’ Finlandia is both darkly thunderous and beautifully evocative. Catching audiences by surprise, the powerful opening later gives way to peaceful sweeping strings in striking Finnish style.
Joining the Orchestra for this concert will be Khatia Buniatishvili, ‘one of today’s most exciting and technically gifted young painists’, who will perform Schumann’s beautiful Piano Concerto.
Contrasting this will be the menacing ‘fate fanfare’ of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4. First performed in 1878, this symphonic masterpiece moves through brooding pessimism to a lively Scherzo and a glorious Finale.