Ravenna Festival
ORCHESTRA FILARMONICA DI SAN PIETROBURGO
direttore YURI TEMIRKANOV
Vadim Repin violin
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Francesca da Rimini Fantasia sinfonica in mi minore op. 32
Sergej Prokof’ev
Concerto n. 2 per violino e orchestra in sol minore op. 63
Igor’ Stravinskij
Petruška
All the Shades of Russia could be the title of this concert by Yuri Temirkanov and Vadim Repin. On stage Repin, whom Yehudi Menuhin described as “the best and most perfect violinist ever heard”, one of the greatest living conductors, and a glorious orchestra: all of them Russian, and performing a programme by great Russian composers including Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini, composed after Dante in 1876 and showing the influence of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung; Stravinsky’s immortal Petrushka, inspired by a traditional puppet, a sort of Russian Pinocchio or Pierrot, and Prokofiev’s cosmopolitan Violin Concerto no. 2, composed in 1935 in Paris, Russia and Madrid.
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