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Seong-Jin Cho plays the Emperor at the Edinburgh Festival
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali Conductor
Seong-Jin Cho Piano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 ‘Emperor’
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10
At the end of his first season as current Principal Conductor, inspirational young Finn Santtu-Matias Rouvali brings two mighty works of heroism and vision to the first of the Philharmonia’s concerts at this year’s International Festival.
Outstanding South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, winner of the 2015 Chopin Competition, is the soloist in Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, one of the composer’s most dramatic but also most poetic creations. Shostakovich’s Tenth is among the composer’s most deeply felt symphonies, a savage critique of life under Stalin’s reign of terror, but also a moving love letter to a forbidden beloved.
(automatically generated) Read LKL’s review of this event here.