Name: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4
Start: 2025-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Festival Hall

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Instrumentalist

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

Piano

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4

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United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4: Lamia Howell, D. (+2 More)

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Lamia

Piano Concerto in One Movement

Symphony No. 4

Jnanakumar P

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For centuries, even the most gifted composers have found themselves persecuted or marginalised simply because of who they were. As a gay man in Tsarist Russia, Tchaikovsky knew what it was to be an outsider, and he poured all his emotions into his Fourth Symphony: a no-holds-barred emotional autobiography, pulsing with melody and torn by raw and dangerous passions. ‘Petrenko’s Fourth is a white-knuckle ride’ wrote Gramophone magazine, and he certainly won’t hold back tonight. There’s no shortage of great melodies in the first half of the concert, too, as Petrenko champions Dorothy Howell’s Lamia – a wildly romantic tale of forbidden love – and the lovely piano concerto by the African-American composer Florence Price. Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, making her Royal Philharmonic Orchestra debut, is the soloist in music that was side-lined for decades and is only now receiving its due.

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Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 by Howell, D., Price, Tchaikovsky, P. I., Wed 25 Jun 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Vasily Petrenko, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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