{"product_id":"rachmaninov-symphony-no-1","title":"Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVladimir Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia Orchestra have a very special relationship, one going back decades. Today, as the Philharmonia’s Conductor Laureate, Ashkenazy is a unique presence on the podium with the Orchestra each season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween November 2015 and 2016, Ashkenazy conducted the Philharmonia in a cycle of Rachmaninov’s three symphonies plus the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSymphonic Dances\u003c\/em\u003e across four concerts in the Orchestra’s London Season. From the youthful invention of Rachmaninov’s First Symphony to the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSymphonic Dances, \u003c\/em\u003ewritten 44 years later, Ashkenazy brings to life the music of a composer who, like him, felt his Russian identity deeply and yet spent so much of his life away from his homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRachmaninov’s four masterworks will be released as part of a three-album series on Signum Classics throughout 2017 and 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Ashkenazy knows how to shape detail and soar in the big melodic moments. The Philharmonia sound is muscular and alert, from the opening woodwind solos to the mighty, stirring symphonic tutti of the finale.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFiona Maddocks, The Observer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Ashkenazy also plumbs the work’s depths for its sensitivity, its suggestions of fervid neurosis, and its uncompromising Russian soul. There’s an idiomatic rawness, even brashness, to the tone, a rhythmic solidity with drive and determination, an awareness of many voices that combine into what feels like a seething inner world or out city – almost an aural equivalent of Moscow itself.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJessica Duchen, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrimephonic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"philharmonia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48059064090937,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7810\/4633\/files\/rach_disc_cover_jpeg_1.jpg?v=1707498946","url":"https:\/\/shop.philharmonia.co.uk\/products\/rachmaninov-symphony-no-1","provider":"Philharmonia Orchestra","version":"1.0","type":"link"}