Gergiev/ Mariinsky Orchestra
Cadogan Hall, 8th October 2019
Punctuality isn’t exactly Valery Gergiev’s strength. Years of experience teach you never to expect a Mariinsky Orchestra concert to begin on time, but when the audience isn’t even admitted until ten minutes before the scheduled start, you know you’re in for a very long night. When Mao Fujita, soloist in Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, left the Cadogan Hall stage at 21:50, a fair audience exodus took place before the suite from Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh that closed Gergiev’s programme – a shame, because it contained by far the best music-making of the night.
Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Orchestra
© Luke Toddfrey
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