Flying the Flag: Images of Russia

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Programme

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)	Night on the Bare Mountain
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)	Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)	Boris Godunov: Clock scene
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)	Boris Godunov: Funeral bell and death of Boris
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Symphony no. 1 in G minor "Winter Daydreams", Op.13

Performers

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Vladimir Jurowski	Conductor
Sergei Leiferkus	Baritone

An all-Russian programme, in both programme and soloists. At its centrepiece are scenes from Mussorgsky's dark-hued opera Boris Godunov with star baritone Sergei Leiferkus.

Night on a Bare Mountain is one of those pieces which hi-fi shops use to impress customers, but it is of course better with no hi-fi in the way - live. It's an explosive start to tonight's programme which concludes with Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, a work inspired by Russian life and folk music of which the composer himself said was 'better than any of my other more mature works'.

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Unvarnished truth: period instrument Mussorgsky

Mark Pullinger, 15th January

The Campaign for Real Mussorgsky has been fighting the good fight for decades. Here, Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment went one step further… performing original versions of his scores on period instruments.

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