live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. St Petersburg Philharmonic conductor Mariss Jansons Mikhail Rudy (piano) Rossini
Overture: The Thieving Magpie
Rachnianinov
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
8.20 Is Freedom That Good for Art?
The buildings are crumbling, the talent has fled, the audience can't get home. Freedom is destroying the institutions of performance art in Russia. What will replace them? Michael Billington talks to St Petersburg concert agent Nick Winter.
8.40 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5 in D minor