The Independent - London, May 17th, 1996
A decade on from perestroika, the Brighton Festival has chosen Russia as its theme - always a handy one for music. A few years back the focus might have been the newly independent republics whose musical wares were sampled by the West in a bout of liberalfervour, then forgotten. This year, however, Brighton has chosen a safe option. Last Friday's orchestral concert at the Dome clung firmly to the Romantic period with Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony in its second half. Prokofiev's patriotic cantata Alexander Nevsky gave a nod to the centenary of cinema, and was paired with the Second Violin...
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