Concert Review - Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio

It was held in St John's Bar in Cambridge Corn Exchange at 6:00pm, 24th October. The conductor of  the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio is called Terje Mikkelsen, who is a Norwegian.  He is the principle guest conductor of this orchestra.  The violin soloist is called Alena Baeva, who is a Russian. 

The program at that night is as follow:


Ole Olsen - The Wild Hunt of Thor


Jean Sibelius - Voilin Concerto in D minor, Op.47


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symnphony No.4


The first piece is rarely heard - even the composer is rarely heard. It is a tone poem depicting a kind of Ride of the Valkyries by Qagner and showing the Norweigan mythlogy.  It is quite good and we all enjoyed it.  The seond one is a violin concerto by Sibelius.  It is relatively long but the performance of the soloist was impressive.  The last one is Symphony No.4 by Tchaikovsky. As I have to play the timpani part for the audition, I have listened to the timpani part carefully and looked at how he played.  I think he has maintained a steady rhythm and this is very hard as the notes in the timpani part is very hard to be counted.  But he has played a little bit too loud thus has covered the flute ahnd violin part when the timpani start to play "mf" - "ff" parts.