大象传媒

大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard with violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Presented by Tom Service from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures (I - Catterline in Winter)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

This Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky's landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid folk tale of a puppet springing to life, Stravinsky had the starting point for his stylistic breakthrough, Petrushka, a ballet that would depict Russia with 'quick tempos, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots'.

The first part of a 大象传媒 commission from Scottish composer Helen Grime - a two-part work whose complementary second 'Picture' can be heard in Prom 30 - prefaces this concert's arrival in Russia via all the despair, passion and determination of Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto.

First broadcast live, 5th August 2016.