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Prom 58: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
- Date Friday 29 August 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.35pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£54 price band C or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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The New York Philharmonic and its music director Lorin Maazel contrast two early 20th-century scores of abundant colour with one of the greatest Russian symphonies.
Ravel orchestrated his Mother Goose suite from a piano duet original, creating a kaleidoscope of sound, and Bartók drew his Miraculous Mandarin suite from his somewhat ghoulish ballet score - and once again proved what a master of the orchestra he was, able to send a shudder up the spine at will.
Tchaikovsky's powerful Fourth Symphony, written at the time of his disastrous agreement to marry an over-zealous admirer, presents Fate as 'the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal'.
- Ravel Mother Goose - suite (19 mins)
- Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin - suite (20 mins)
- Interval
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 (43 mins)
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel conductor
BBC Radio 3
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