Prom 72: Philadelphia Orchestra / Janine Jansen

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)	Finlandia, symphonic poem for orchestra, Op.26
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	La Valse

Performers

Janine Jansen	Violin
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit	Conductor

One of the world’s great orchestras comes to the Proms with a programme of familiar classics that takes in Rachmaninov’s bracing swansong, written for Philadelphia. A regular visitor in recent years, Janine Jansen joins the orchestra for the ever-popular Tchaikovsky concerto she recorded recently in fresh and unashamedly romantic style. These works are bookended by Sibelius’s patriotic rallying cry and Ravel’s apotheosis of the waltz, a piece whose unstoppable whirling may have been intended as a metaphor for the fate of European civilisation.

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