London Symphony Orchestra 04
Powerhouse conductor Valery Gergiev, the Edinburgh International Festival’s Honorary President, brings the London Symphony Orchestra to the festival for what promises to be a fascinating four-concert residency.
Valery Gergiev concludes the LSO’s festival residency with the final symphonic creations by both Brahms and Szymanowski. Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is the summation of his orchestral music, serious yet transcendent, passionate but intellectually rigorous. It’s hard not to feel moved by the slow unfolding of the final movement’s towering passacaglia, based on church music by Bach.
Szymanowski’s Symphony No 4 is a piano concerto in all but name, its percussive brilliance tempered by magical moments of lyrical reflection.
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev Conductor
Denis Matsuev Piano
Leonidas Kavakos Violin
Szymanowski
Symphony No 4
Violin Concerto No 2
Brahms
Symphony No 4