Description:

Energetic Armenian-born violinist Sergey Khachatryan joins the Orchestra for an all-Russian program that highlights Tchaikovsky's summery Violin Concerto. At the podium for his fourth Philadelphia Orchestra visit is Moscow native Vladimir Jurowski, principal conductor of the London Philharmonic and music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Jurowski opens the concert with Stravinsky's flamboyant early Scherzo fantastique, written when the 24-year-old composer was still under the tutelage of Rimsky-Korsakov, and closes with Prokofiev's rarely heard Fourth Symphony from 1930, in its sumptuous expanded version of 1947.

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Audio Samples:

STRAVINSKY - Scherzo fantastique

TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

October 29, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Connoisseur Collection, and package Thursday 5C

Part of the 2010 Weekday Collection, and package Thursday 5C