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Edinburgh International Festival 2021 (2/4)

Recorded at this year's Edinburgh International Festival, conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Steven Osborne join the RSNO for a concert of iconic Russian repertoire.

One of Britain's most treasured musicians, pianist Steven Osborne joins the RSNO for Shostakovich’s first piano concerto, with celebrated conductor Valery Gergiev at the helm. According to Shostakovich’s pupil Evgeny Makarov, this playful and lyrical work from the 1930s started out as trumpet concerto, which explains the stand out role for the instrument alongside the piano. After the interval Stravinsky’s ballet score for strings alone follows Apollo and the three Muses at the height of his neoclassical style. The concert opens with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings from 1880. He wrote to his friend the music publisher Pyotr Jurgenson “I love this Serenade terribly, and fervently hope that it might soon see the light of day”.

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra in C major Op. 48
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No1 Op35

20:25
INTERVAL: Schubert's Winterreise D911 (selected songs), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano)

20:45
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete

Steven Osborne - piano
Christopher Hart - trumpet
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Valery Gergiev - conductor

Kate Molleson - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 1, Op 35

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Christopher Hart. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gute Nacht (Winterreise)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Schubert: Winterreise D911.
    • Erato.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Schubert: Winterreise D911.
    • Erato.
  • Franz Schubert

    Frühlingstraum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Schubert: Winterreise D911.
    • Erato.
  • Franz Schubert

    Letzte Hoffnung (Winterreise)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Schubert: Winterreise D911.
    • Erato.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Leiermann (Winterreise)

    Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Schubert: Winterreise D911.
    • Erato.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagete

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Quant'è grato all'alma mia (Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Conductor: Edoardo Müller. Choir: Chorus of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia.
    • Colbran, The Muse.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto in D major, G479

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Tue 14 Sep 2021 19:30