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Valery Gergiev and a youthful Mariinsky surge through Scheherazade

By Mark Pullinger, 09 October 2017
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“Clarinets traded sinuous curlicues as the Astrologer's theme unfurled”
Reviewed at Cadogan Hall, London on 8 October 2017
Programme
Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel Suite
Stravinsky, Symphony in C
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Op.35
Lyadov, The Enchanted Lake, Op.62
Performers
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.