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QSO with Valery Polyansky

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8pm, Saturday 12 May 2012
QPAC Concert Hall

Conductor Valery Polyanski
Piano Tatiana Polyanskaya
Trumpet Sarah Wilson

Shostakovich Festival Overture
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky Marche Slave
Borodin Symphony No.2

Only a Russian conductor like Valery Polyansky can invest Borodin's music with the uniquely Slavic sense of yearning and nowhere is this more heartfelt than his Second Symphony. Although he had been exiled from his homeland for twenty years, the spirit of Mother Russia permeates this exquisitely nostalgic work. Let Maestro Polyansky and QSO envelope you in its gorgeously sinuous melodies. In total contrast, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1 is a walk on the wild side and reveals the composer at his most subversively and mischievously satirical. At the premiere of his Festival Overture, composed to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution, the audience was ordered to applaud. Modern audiences need no encouragement.

Pre-Concert Talk
Enjoy a pre-concert talk with Warwick Potter prior to this performance. Please click here to find out more.

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