Event listing: The Year 1913: Ballet Russes | Symphony Hall | Sat 16 Feb 2013 at 19:00

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The violin concertos of Nielsen and Sibelius

Kevin W Ng, 28th January

An analysis of the Violin Concertos by Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen as we celebrate their 150th anniversaries.

See Khovanshchina: Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River" in

Ballets Russes: 1913 with the CBSO, James Ehnes and Simone Young

Verity Quaite, 16th February

It isn’t every day that you bump into a world-class virtuoso violinist. I bumped into one, James Ehnes as it happens, and in the literal rather than figurative sense, only minutes before he was to star in the CBSO’s concert celebrating the Ballets Russes in 1913 – a programme that brought together the delightful tranquillity of Mussorgsky’s prelude to Khovanshchina, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D

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