York Symphony Orchestra Alasdair Jamieson, conductor Claire Jowett, leader Grace Huang, piano (2)
Programme
:
Mikhail Glinka
1:
Overture to 'Ruslan and Ludmilla'
Sergey Prokofiev
2:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3 in C, Op 26
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
3:
Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64
Note:
An all-Russian programme to set pulses racing. After Glinka’s scintillating curtain-raiser, Grace Huang features as the virtuosic soloist in the best known of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony moves from despair to triumph, its movements unified by the appearance of a motto theme.