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Prom 55: Gershwin’s Piano Concerto

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2023

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons for Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. Plus Carlos Simon, Stravinsky and Ravel.

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons for Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. Plus Carlos Simon, Stravinsky and Ravel.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances (European premiere)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

c.8.20 pm
Interval: Kate Molleson is joined by pianist and music director Allyson Devenish to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week.

c.8.45 pm
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
Ravel: La valse

Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Dance pulses through this second concert from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (see Prom 52). Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, with its bluesy slow movement and hot, frenzied finale. Ravel’s La valse dances to the edge of the abyss, while Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka projects the earthy rhythms and bold colours of Russian folk music. The concert opens with the European premiere of US composer Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances, drawing on dances that chart the Black American experience from slavery through to today.

02:17 Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
22:45 Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
01:04:39 Interval: Proms highlights coming up
01:28:30 Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
02:11:45 Ravel: La valse

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Sat 26 Aug 2023 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carlos Simon

    Four Black American Dances

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka (1947 version)

  • Francis Poulenc

    LibertΓ© (Figure humaine)

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for solo violin No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Gigue)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich.
    • Bach: Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 20.

  • Valerie Coleman

    Umoja: Anthem of Unity

    Orchestra: New York Youth Symphony. Conductor: Michael Repper.
    • New York Youth Symphony - Florence Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America; Piano Co.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Ave Maria (Tanti anni prima)

    Performer: Aaron Akugbo. Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K.551, 'Jupiter' (4th mvmt, Molto allegro)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major

  • Bill Evans

    Waltz for Debbie

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Conversations with Bill Evans.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La valse

  • Erik Satie

    Le chant guerrier du Roi des Haricots (Menus propos enfantins, No 1)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Satie: The Complete solo piano music.
    • Decca.
    • 35.

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Aug 2023 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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