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Prom 27: Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto delights with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

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“I was completely engaged and on the edge of my seat as if it was a work I had never heard before”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 5 August 2016
Grime, Two Eardley Pictures – 1: Catterline in Winter (BBC commission: world premiere)
Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Traditional Finnish, Folksong (Encore)
Stravinsky, Petrushka
Pekka Kuusisto, Violin
Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor
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