symphony orchestra of india – day 3

i love the 2^nd piano concerto by rachmaninoff. it was one the first pieces that drew me in to appreciate western classical music 2 years back with its gorgeous melody and crazy emotional movement. to hear it played live was fantastic, especially the slow tug of the theme of the sad second movement. it was a russian day yesterday with them playing a borodin piece in the beginning and ending with tchaikovsky’s 5^th symphony- another great sad second movement with a mad thundering end. the strange thing is listening to all of them is like literally being on a roller coaster ride, from the high to the low, from the thundering to the soft. there seemed to be no limit to the passion whether it be joy or more often than not - sorrow.

the encore was yet another tchaikovsky piece from eugene onegin and then they ended with ‘the bat’ some thundering strauss.