Experience music of breathtaking passion and power with the great Russians, as the BBC Philharmonic plays music by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky on Saturday 4 December
Fate, destiny, sheer bad luck...call it what you like, but Tchaikovsky believed it ruled his life. And he poured all his hopes and fears into his Fourth Symphony: a no-holds-barred musical autobiography in which Tchaikovsky squares up to his demons in music of breathtaking passion and power. Some people think it's the greatest symphony he ever wrote and the BBC Philharmonic's chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky loves every note ? and he conducts it like no one else.
Expect the same commitment, too, in this rare chance to hear Tchaikovsky's brooding Hamlet overture (it's like Romeo and Juliet's serious younger brother), and wash it all down with a double vodka-shot of pitch-black Russian humour in Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death.
With his dark-chocolate voice and larger-than-life charisma, there's no greater living performer of these extraordinary songs than Sergei Leiferkus.
Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture, Hamlet
Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death (orchestrated by Shostakovich)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4
Vassily Sinaisky Conductor
Sergei Leiferkus Baritone
Preview at 6.30pm: The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall shares some Russian insights.
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