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Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2023

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist Alim Beisembayev and Walton's First Symphony.

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist and new Radio 3 New Generation Artist pianist Alim Beisembayev, and Walton's First Symphony.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lili Boulanger:
D’un matin de printemps

Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

c.8.10pm
INTERVAL
Iain Farrington joins Georgia to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week.

c.8.30pm
Walton:
Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

Alim Beisembayev, piano
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

John Wilson and his orchestral supergroup the Sinfonia of London return to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with pianist and new Radio 3 New Generation Artist, 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.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Sun 6 Aug 2023 19:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'Un Matin De Printemps

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto No. 2 In C Minor Op.18

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    "Danse Infernale" from the Firebird Suite

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev. Music Arranger: Guido Agosti.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Die stille Stadt

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • LINN.

  • György Ligeti

    Requiem : II Kyrie

    Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Jonathan Nott. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Ligeti : Project Vol.4 - Hamburg Concerto, Double Concerto, Requiem & Ramificati.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 12.

  • Iain Farrington

    Saturday in the Park with Elgar (After Elgar)

    Performer: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Art Deco Trio.
    • Classical Changes.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 107.

  • William Walton

    Symphony No. 1 In B Flat Minor

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • George Gershwin

    Three Preludes No.2

    Music Arranger: Nelson Riddle. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Magnificat primo à 8 (Selve morale e spirituale)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE : OP-30557.
    • NAIVE.
    • 20.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Aug 2023 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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