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Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2024

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Ives and Debussy, and Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel Piano Concerto in G major.

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus in Tchaikovsky, Ives, Ravel and Debussy.

Presented by Tom Service live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Charles Ives: Three Places in New England
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

c.8.20 pm
INTERVAL: Debussy’s Nocturnes is based upon selections from Poèmes anciens et romanesques by the French symbolist poet Henri de Régnier while Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini draws on the Italian noblewoman depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy. To shed light on these literary texts, Tom Service is joined by Dr Julia Hartley, a Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow and a Â鶹ԼÅÄ/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

c.8.50pm
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Philharmonia Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Tchaikovsky was no stranger to unhappiness in love, and his symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini allows us to eavesdrop on his pain in heart-rending autobiographical detail as the composer retells Dante’s tale of a noblewoman’s infidelity and subsequent casting into Hell. For their Prom, Vasily Petrenko and his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plunge us deep into Tchaikovsky’s signature emotional turmoil after moonlit Debussy, Charles Ives’s own foray into American Impressionism and Ravel’s enthralling, jazz-inspired Piano Concerto under the fingers of the ferociously talented Denis Kozhukhin.

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Thu 1 Aug 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • Charles Ives

    Three Places in New England

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Album for the Young, op 39: In the Church

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Choir: Philharmonia Chorus.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Francesca da Rimini

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Litanie della Beata Vergine Maria

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Rosa Mistica. Musiche delle monache lombarde del '600.
    • Tactus.
    • 014.

  • Francesca Caccini

    S'io men vò

    Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Luc Beauséjour. Singer: Shannon Mercer.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 8.

  • Anna Bon di Venezia

    Sonata No.6 in G major (Six Sonate da Camera Op.1)

    Performer: Stefano Bet. Performer: Francesco Cera.
    • Sonate Veneziane del '700.
    • TACTUS.
    • 016.

Broadcast

  • Thu 1 Aug 2024 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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