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Russian exuberance and Soviet introspection from the LSO at the Barbican

By Jason Weir, 30 November 2016
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“propelled the music forward with a sense of demented exuberance”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 29 November 2016
Programme
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Prokofiev, Symphony no. 6 in E flat minor, Op.111
Performers
Thomas Søndergård, Conductor
Barry Douglas, Piano
London Symphony Orchestra
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Jason Weir
Jason Weir

Jason completed a PhD in music history at Oxford University in 2023. His research focused on the development of suburban folk and popular music in late 19th-century Vienna alongside a social and political history of noise. Jason gained his MMus degree from King’s College London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has taught and written about the history of the symphony in the 19th and 20th centuries, musical modernism in Vienna, and broader cultural trends in Europe around 1900. Jason is currently lead violinist for Sinfonia Tamesa and guest led Kensington Symphony Orchestra in their 2015-16 season.