Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/ Karabits *****
The Anvil, Basingstoke, 19th April 2018
This Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert under Kirill Karabits was billed under the title “Bohemian Fire” and it certainly didn’t contravene the Trades Descriptions Act. Rachmaninov dedicated his Caprice bohémien to Anna Lodyzhenskaya, the beautiful gypsy wife of his friend, Peter Lodyzhensky. According to some sources, the original manuscript of Rachmaninov’s next work, his cataclysmic First Symphony, also carried a dedication to “A.L.” along with Tolstoy’s doom-laden epigraph to Anna Karenina: “Vengeance is mine. I will repay.” With a sizzling concerto performance by French-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović, it was an evening to burst the thermometer.
Nemanja Radulović
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