Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Thursday October 29, 2009
8:00  PM
Verizon Hall

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor

Sergey Khachatryan - Violin

Program:

STRAVINSKY - Scherzo fantastique

TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto

PROKOFIEV - Symphony No. 4 (1947 revision)

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.