Royal Liverpool Philharmonic: Peer Gynt

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Helsinki isn’t all that far from St Petersburg – and while Sibelius may have wanted his native Finland to break free from Russian rule, he still loved Russian music!

You can hear it in his First Symphony; all brooding drama, luscious romance and grand brassy climaxes. Expect Vasily Petrenko to give it his all. And expect some serious razzle‐dazzle – and real emotion too – from the superb young Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski, in Rachmaninoff’s bittersweet Fourth Piano Concerto. Meanwhile, there’s a good reason why everyone knows at least one melody from Grieg’s first Peer Gynt suite. These are quite simply some of the most memorable tunes ever written.

"Trpčeski  was born to perform this music, and Petrenko to conduct it. With the addition of the warm Russian sound that the RLPO adopts, the mix is exceptionally potent." — The Telegraph, 5 March 2010