
RPO: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4 and Florence Price's Piano Concerto
Vassily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason the soloist in Florence Price's Piano Concerto.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director Vassily Petrenko conducts a programme of music by composers who found themselves persecuted or marginalised simply because of who they were. As a gay man in Tsarist Russia, Tchaikovsky knew what it was to be an outsider, and he poured all his emotions into his Fourth Symphony: a no-holds-barred autobiography, pulsing with melody and riven with raw and dangerous passions. There are plenty of great melodies in the first half of the concert too, from the 20th century: English composer Dorothy Howell’s Lamia, a wildly romantic tale of forbidden love, and the one-movement piano concerto by the African-American composer Florence Price. Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, making her Royal Philharmonic Orchestra debut, is the soloist in music that was side-lined for decades and is only now receiving its due.
Recorded last week at the Royal Festival Hall in London, and presented by Ian Skelly.
Dorothy Howell: Lamia
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement
Interval
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Petrenko (conductor)
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