Only a Russian conductor like Valery Polyansky can invest Borodin's music with the uniquely Slavic sense of yearning; nowhere is this more heartfelt that in his Second Symphony. Let Maestro Polyansky and QSO envelope you in its gorgeously sinuous melodies. In total contrast, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1 is a walk on the wild side and reveals the composer at his most subversively and mischievously satirical. At the premiere of his Festival Overture, composed to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution, the audience was ordered to applaud. Modern audiences need no encouragement.
Conductor
Valery Polyansky
Piano
Tatiana Polyanskaya
Trumpet
Sarah Wilson
Shostakovich
Festival Overture
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky
Marche Slave
Borodin
Symphony No.2