Prom 60: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in Weill and Rachmaninov. Kirill Gerstein joins them for Thomas Adès's Piano Concerto.
Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in music by Thomas Adès. Plus Kurt Weill and Rachmaninov.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music
Thomas Adès: Piano Concerto
c.8.20 pm
Interval
Martin Handley talks to tonight's pianist Kirill Gerstein about Rachmaninov.
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
Rachmaninov’s 150th-anniversary celebrations continue with the composer’s final symphony, a work tinged with yearning. ‘Only one place is closed to me,’ Rachmaninov wrote after his exile in the USA, ‘and that is my own country, Russia.’ Following in the virtuoso tradition of Rachmaninov is Thomas Adès’s Piano Concerto, performed here by Kirill Gerstein, who gave the 2019 premiere. The work’s sardonic brilliance finds an echo in the suite from Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (‘The Threepenny Opera’), with its famous ‘Ballad of Mack the Knife’. Coming after last week’s visitors from Boston (where Adès’s concerto was premiered), tonight we welcome the esteemed Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – 100 this year – making its Proms debut under Chief Conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
02:00 Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music
32:09 Thomas Adès: Piano Concerto
58:45 Interval: Kirill Gerstein on Rachmaninov
01:24:08 Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor
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Kurt Weill
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. -
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Thomas Adès
Piano Concerto
Performer: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Performer: Vladimir Jurowski. Performer: Kirill Gerstein. -
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Sergey Rachmaninov
6 Songs Op.4 ; No.3; V Molchan'I Nochi Taynoy
Performer: Kirill Gerstein. -
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Fritz Kreisler
Liebesleid
Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.- Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Melodie in E Major, Op. 3 No. 3
Performer: Kirill Gerstein.- Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42; Variation 20. Più mosso - Coda (andante)
Performer: Kirill Gerstein.- Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18; III. Allegro scherzando
Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.- Naxos.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 3 In A Minor Op.44
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. -
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor
Orchestrator: Henry Wood. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No 10 in C major, K 330 (1st mvt)
Performer: Christian Blackshaw.- Wigmore Hall Live.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58, MWV Q 32: III. Adagio
Performer: Christian Poltéra. Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- MENDELSSOHN WORKS FOR CELLO & PIANO.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58, MWV Q 32: IV. Molto allegro e vivace
Performer: Christian Poltéra. Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- MENDELSSOHN WORKS FOR CELLO & PIANO.
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Broadcast
- Thu 31 Aug 2023 19:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
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