Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes – suite
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’
Jay Capperauld
Bruckner’s Skull
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Alexandre Kantorow
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev
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Reviewed: 25 July, 2025
Venue: Royal Albert Hall
The lure of the East runs through this Prom given by Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. French pianist and star of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Alexandre Kantorow is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto – a vivid musical travelogue, lively with chirping crickets and croaking frogs – while a selection from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes offers sonic snapshots from Peru, Turkey, Persia and America. Fate knocks loudly at the door in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, answered with defiant musical optimism, but it’s Death who gets the final word in Jay Capperauld’s Bruckner’s Skull.
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