MUSIC

    All Russian

    All Russian

    Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

    March 17-March 19, 2011


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    Many who love Tchaikovsky's ubiquitous First Piano Concerto may know nothing of his Second. Extroverted, ingeniously constructed and possibly more demanding for the soloist than the First, it contains some of Tchaikovsky's finest music. British-born, Juilliard-trained pianist Stephen Hough, whose career was launched in 1983 with a Naumburg Competition victory, has become one of its most ardent champions. He is joined by the dynamic Vasily Petrenko in his Philadelphia Orchestra debut. In 2006 the Russian-born Petrenko became the youngest-ever principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and in 2009 he was named its chief conductor. The program concludes with Prokofiev's fierce Fifth Symphony, written in the summer of 1944 as "a hymn to free and happy Man," as the composer said, "to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit."


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      • Venue Info

        Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

        300 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        $20-$130

        Info Phone: 215.893.1999

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        March 17-March 19, 2011

        Times:

        Thursday @ 8 pm
        Friday @ 2 pm
        Saturday @ 8 pm

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