Multiple Grammy Award-winning violinist Maxim Vengerov has been described as the world’s greatest living string player so his first performance in Nottingham makes this visit from the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra one to savour. Under the baton of acclaimed Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan, he’ll be playing Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, written during the turbulent second decade of the 20th century but somehow largely removed from its revolutionary events. Belying his reputation as an ‘enfant terrible’, Prokofiev produced some of his most tender melodic writing as well as an athletic workout for the soloist’s technique. Maxim also takes a starring role in Kyiv-born Alexey Shor’s Seascapes, an engaging evocation of Maltese coastal scenes.
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