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Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2023

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Ligeti and Shostakovich. Alexandre Kantorow joins them for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: pianist Alexandre Kantorow joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vasily Petrenko in music by Beethoven, György Ligeti and Shostakovich.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

György Ligeti: Lontano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

Interval
Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett to talk about Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Tchaikovsky Competition-winner Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as ‘Liszt reincarnated’ and a ‘fire-breathing virtuoso’. Still in his twenties, the young pianist makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, joining Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s poetic Piano Concerto No. 4. Music of terror and despair, frenzied horror and – eventually – a flicker of triumph supply a musical portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Shostakovich’s impassioned Symphony No. 10, while more abstract orchestral soundscapes come courtesy of anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.

02:50 György Ligeti - Lontano
20:53 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
56:15 Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird: Finale (transc for piano by Guido Agosti)
1:00:29 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett
1:24:25 Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 in E minor

2 hours, 44 minutes

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Tue 15 Aug 2023 19:30
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Music Played

  • György Ligeti

    Lontano

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concerto No. 4 In G Major Op.58

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird Suite - Finale

    Music Arranger: Guido Agosti. Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79: III. Lullaby

    Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Singer: Zara Dolukhanova.
    • Shostakovich plays Shostakovich.
    • Praga Digitals.
    • 3.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - Symphony No. 10: Royal Liverpool Philh.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - Symphony No. 10: Royal Liverpool Philh.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - Symphony No. 10: Royal Liverpool Philh.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 10 In E Minor Op.93

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite No 8 in F Minor, HWV 433

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • The Handel Project: Handel-Suites & Brahms-Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Hans Pfitzner

    An die Mark (4 Lieder, Op 15)

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho. Lyricist: Ilse von Stach-Lerner. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Im Abendrot: Songs by Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Richard Wagner

    Träume (Wesendonck Lieder, No 5)

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho. Lyricist: Mathilde Wesendonck. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Im Abendrot: Songs by Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Hans Pfitzner

    Wasserfahrt (6 Lieder, Op 6)

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho. Lyricist: Heinrich Heine. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Im Abendrot: Songs by Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Aug 2023 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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