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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and its Music Director Vasily Petrenko perform a programme of romantic and dramatic music from Russia.

The concert opens with a raucous and macabre tone poem by Liadov - Kikimora – which depicts a Slavic female spirit who is brought up by a magician, spinning flax with evil intentions.

The orchestra is then joined by the extraordinary young Israeli pianist Tom Borrow for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s tour-de-force Piano Concerto No.1 – a grand, passionate masterpiece of the piano repertoire.

After the interval we'll hear Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 – his dark and powerful response to the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953. It’s a piece which is, at times, utterly terrifying, but which proved to be full of artistic catharsis for its composer – a musical sigh of relief, almost.

Presented by Mark Forrest at The Glasshouse, Gateshead, and recorded on 8th February 2026.

Anatoly Liadov: Kikimora, Op. 63
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93

Tom Borrow (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

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