Performer: Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra

The touring Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra brings a 'Finnish Sandwich' to Leeds.

The UK-Russian Cultural Year is launched in London by the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, in a programme of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. 

It would be hard to count out every single thing that was Russian about this concert. The sounds of 19th-century Russia came to Colston Hall, as part of a big tour of the UK, with three giant Russian works and three encores, by all-Russian performers.The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio is a big orchestra with around 100 instrumentalists.

The evening’s music started with a piece I hadn’t heard before: Johan Svendsen’s Carnival in Paris, Episode for Orchestra Op.9.

Vladimir Fedoseyev, Varvara Nepomnyashchaya y la Orquesta Sinfónica Chaikovsky de Moscú comparecieron en el Auditorio Nacional con el ánimo de revivir la gran danza rusa. 

Jan Mráček spielte intensiv und innig bis in die leisesten Flageolettöne; Mélodie Zhao bot eine technisch vollends überzeugende Leistung, die gelegentlich etwas über das Ziel hinausschoss.