Five curtain calls at a classical music concert at the Dome is unprecedented but Vladimir Jurowski (pictured) and The London Philharmonic Orchestra richly deserved each one.
After a sparkling reading of Mozart's overture to Don Giovanni and a faultless performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Italian soloist Andrea Lucchesini, Jurowski - Music Director at Glyndebourne and guest conductor with the Russian National Orchestra - stepped to the podium for a Russian masterpiece, Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony.
Premiered just nine days before the composer's death, this is a magnificent piece of music echoing all the sorrows and the brief jollities of Tchaikovsky's life, as well as being a symphony for Russia in all its glory.
Jurowski, with his dark hair scraped back into a small ponytail and looking like a character straight out of a Dostoyevsky novel, gave a dazzling account of this major work of the Romantic period.
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