Blink and you miss it: few overtures hurtle upwards and explode quite as brilliantly as Glinka鈥檚 Ruslan and Ludmilla. But then, in the long winter nights of Northern Europe musicians have always known how to light up the sky. Sibelius鈥檚 Violin Concerto sounds like it鈥檚 lit by the midnight sun, and according to the critics, the rising French star Alexandra Soumm makes it glow with a special intensity. And Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Fourth Symphony begins in an inferno of personal tragedy before cracking out the vodka and dancing till daybreak. Conductor Ben Gernon has a special flair for Tchaikovsky: on an autumn afternoon in Aberdeen, this should generate some serious heat.
Please note the venue and start time for this concert.
The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 3.