Bowing Out with a Bang; Alexander Lazarev Is Calling On the Big Guns for His Final Season As Conductor with the Rsno, but Who Will Be His Successor? By Michael Tumelty
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IN ALEXANDER Lazarev's last season as principal conductor of the RSNO, the big Russian is hauling out the heavy artillery to mark the end of his seven-year reign.
It was always on the cards that Lazarev would go out with a powerhouse season. It is his intention not to disappoint in a seven- concert series stuffed with the Russian masterworks that are his specialism and the occasional European blockbuster orchestral work. He'll give a sideways nod to his greatest triumph - the Shostakovich symphonies - with a performance of the 12th Symphony, The Year 1917, often dismissed by its detractors as a noisy chunk of Soviet bombast and propaganda, but always treated by Lazarev - who has performed it many times with the RSNO, at home and abroad - as an incendiary and intense symphonic masterpiece.See the full content of this document
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Bowing Out with a Bang; Alexander Lazarev Is Calling On the Big Guns for His Final Season As Conductor with the Rsno, but Who Will Be His Successor? By Michael Tumelty
Tchaikovsky will also be very much on Lazarev's agenda, with performances of the Nutcracker as well as the stunning Fourth and Fifth symphonies which, amazingly, as he revealed yesterday, he has not performed with the RSNO.
Pulverising drama, albeit in black-and-white neo-classical terms, wil...See the full content of this document
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