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Modernism meets Romanticism in La Verdi's all-Russian programme

By James Imam, 05 October 2014
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Reviewed at Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan on 3 October 2014
Programme
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op.16
Tchaikovsky, Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op.58
Performers
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
Valentina Lisitsa, Piano
Xian Zhang, Conductor
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.