Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Resident at Southbank Centre
Friday 20 February 2009, 7.30pm
Sergey Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No.23
in A, K.488
INTERVAL
Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Vladimir Jurowskiconductor
Leon Fleisherpiano
Thus spake Zarathustra, and thus spake Richard Strauss. In his extravagant Nietzsche-inspired tone poem the composer achieved the truly extraordinary, writing music whose scale and effect pre-empted in music the art form itwas later to be embraced by - the widescreen, technicolour, surround-sound of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before Strauss' score reaches a hedonistic kaleidoscope of orchestral colour, it famously feels its way into existence, Strauss' orchestra telling how the Persian prophet Zoroaster 'left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains'
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