Programme
- D’un matin de printemps(5 mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor(34 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor(43 mins)
Performers
- Alim Beisembayevpiano
- John Wilsonconductor
About This Event
John Wilson and his orchestral supergroup the Sinfonia of London return to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with pianist Alim Beisembayev. The concert opens with Lili Boulanger’s mercurial tone-poem D’un matin de printemps, composed shortly before her tragically early death at the age of only 24. Walton’s First Symphony provides the arresting conclusion: a young man’s musical manifesto, composed between the two World Wars, it’s a white-hot outpouring of personal conflict that resolves (or does it?) into a glowing ceremonial finale.
Broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ TV
Unfortunately, Benjamin Grosvenor has had to withdraw from this Prom. We are grateful to Alim Beisembayev for stepping in as soloist.
Image: John Wilson © Astrid Ackermann