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Benjamin Grosvenor Performs Beethoven鈥檚 Fourth Piano Concerto

麻豆约拍 Proms 2021

Live at the 麻豆约拍 Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the 贬补濒濒茅 with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and organist Anna Lapwood in music by Unsuk Chin, Beethoven and Saint-Sa毛ns.

Live at the 麻豆约拍 Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the 贬补濒濒茅 with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and organist Anna Lapwood in music by Unsuk Chin, Beethoven and Saint-Sa毛ns.

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major (cadenzas: Saint-Sa毛ns)

8.15 pm
Interval: From Beethoven to Saint-Saens - Martin Handley in conversation with 19th-century music expert Katy Hamilton.

8.40pm
Camille Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ'

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Anna Lapwood (organ)
贬补濒濒茅
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

鈥榃hat I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.鈥� So wrote Camille Saint-Sa毛ns of his last 鈥� and greatest 鈥� symphony, a work full of melody, invention and sonic drama (not to mention a piano duet effect he liked so much he recycled it in The Carnival of the Animals). Just as the mighty 鈥極rgan鈥� Symphony rewrote the 19th-century musical rules, so Beethoven鈥檚 Fourth Piano Concerto scandalised audiences some 80 years earlier, with its revolutionary opening and tender, slow-movement battle between soloist and orchestra 鈥� famously compared to Orpheus taming the Furies. Beethoven is also the inspiration for Unsuk Chin鈥檚 volatile Subito con forza, given its UK premiere here by Sir Mark Elder and the 贬补濒濒茅.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Tue 7 Sep 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Summer's Eve Op.71 no.2

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.
    • Grieg:Lyric Pieces.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 21.

  • Unsuk Chin

    Subito con forza

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G major (with Saint-Saens cadenzas)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    7 Improvisations for organ, Op 150; IV. Allegretto

    Performer: Robert Delcamp.
    • Naxos.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 4 in C minor, Op 44 (opening)

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem)

    Choir: Chorus Musicus K枚ln. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • NAIVE.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Pianists (The Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony / Carnival of the Animals.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15-16.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Les cloches de Las Palmas, Op 111 No 4

    Performer: Bracha Eden. Performer: Alexander Tamir.
    • Decca.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ'

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Trio No.1, Op.8

    Ensemble: Amatis Trio.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Von Otter/Quasthoff/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

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  • Tue 7 Sep 2021 19:30
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