Philharmonia Orchestra: Salonen/Lang Lang Series

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

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Programme

Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)	Romeo and Juliet: excerpts
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)	Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major, Op.26
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)	Le Poème de l'extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), Op.54

Performers

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen	Conductor
Lang Lang	Piano

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The third and last of Lang Lang's concerts with the Philharmonia.

Having cultivated a reputation as the 'bad boy' of Russian music, Prokofiev's musical rehabilitation began with his radiantly melodic Third Concerto.

The pianistic tour-de-force appears almost restrained when set beside the apocalyptic eruptions of Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, a super-heated magnum opus generated by cataclysmic waves of sound.

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Powerful Prokofiev and Scriabin from Salonen

Nick Boston, 4th December

Powerful Romeo and Juliet and triumphant Scriabin from the Philharmonia and Salonen, with moments of excitement in Prokofiev from Lang Lang.

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