Artist Spotlight: Vengerov / BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Artist Spotlight: Vengerov / BBC Symphony Orchestra Vengerov performs Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov 28 February 2014 / 19:30 Hall
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Beethoven Concerto for violin, cello and piano Rimsky-Korsakov Schéhérazade Maxim Vengerov conductor / violin Antonio Meneses cello Igor Levit piano The young sultana Scheherazade can delay her daybreak execution only by diverting the sultan with magnificent stories. She tells him of The Sea and the Shipwreck on the Rock, The Young Prince and Princess and The Festival of Baghdad. In his musical version of Sheherazade’s night of magnificent tales, Rimsky-Korsakov conjured magic, propulsion and beauty in some of the most intoxicating orchestral music ever written. Here, in a similarly astonishing show of skill and dexterity, Maxim Vengerov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and plays the violin solos as the neat and ordered brilliance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto meets the spectacular, seat-pinning power of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Don’t miss Vengerov with some of his closest invited colleagues in what’s sure to be an atmosphere-charged concert. The concert finishes at approximately 9.30pm Part of BBC Symphony Orchestra 2013–2014 Part of Barbican Presents 2013–2014 Part of All classical music events - 2013–2014 season Produced by the Barbican