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L o n d o n<br />
Symphony<br />
Orchest r a<br />
CONDUCTED BY VALERY GERGIEV<br />
FEATURING NICOLA BENEDETTI, TOBY SPENCE,<br />
DENIS MATSUEV & LEONIDAS KAVAKOS<br />
03<br />
Toby Spence Tenor<br />
Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh <strong>Festival</strong> Chorus<br />
Christopher Bell Chorus Master<br />
‘This Brahms orchestra Symphony No 3 consistently<br />
turns Brahms Variations out performances on a theme by Haydn a cut<br />
Szymanowski Symphony No 3 ‘Song of the Night’<br />
above their rivals’<br />
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Szymanowski’s Third Symphony is one of the composer’s most<br />
admired and most sumptuous works, an <strong>in</strong>toxicat<strong>in</strong>g creation<br />
for tenor soloist, choir and orchestra that describes the soul’s<br />
communication with God dur<strong>in</strong>g a starlit Persian night. Evok<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the subtle colours of Debussy, Ravel and Scriab<strong>in</strong>, its shimmer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
orchestral textures convey the mysteries of the supernatural <strong>in</strong><br />
iridescent, ecstatic music.<br />
eif.co.uk/lso3<br />
1 hour 30 m<strong>in</strong>utes approximately<br />
04<br />
Denis Matsuev Piano<br />
Leonidas Kavakos Viol<strong>in</strong><br />
Szymanowski Symphony No 4<br />
Viol<strong>in</strong> Concerto No 2<br />
Brahms Symphony No 4<br />
01 Thursday 16 August 8.00pm<br />
02 Friday 17 August 8.00pm<br />
03 Saturday 18 August 7.30pm<br />
04 Sunday 19 August 7.30pm<br />
Usher Hall<br />
Tickets<br />
£42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12<br />
Special LSO Ticket Offer<br />
Book for all 4 concerts and<br />
get a 20% discount<br />
Valery Gergiev concludes the LSO’s festival residency with the f<strong>in</strong>al<br />
symphonic creations by both Brahms and Szymanowski. Brahms’s<br />
Fourth Symphony is the summation of his orchestral music, serious<br />
yet transcendent, passionate but <strong>in</strong>tellectually rigorous. It’s hard not<br />
to feel moved by the slow unfold<strong>in</strong>g of the f<strong>in</strong>al movement’s tower<strong>in</strong>g<br />
passacaglia, based on church music by Bach.<br />
Szymanowski’s Symphony No 4 is a piano concerto <strong>in</strong> all but name, its<br />
percussive brilliance tempered by magical moments of lyrical reflection.<br />
eif.co.uk/lso4<br />
1 hour 55 m<strong>in</strong>utes approximately<br />
Music 43<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Supported by<br />
karolszymanowski.pl
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