The first of six programmes recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London, marking the appointment of Andre Previn as Music Director of the RPO. The series shows composers from Mozart to the present day exploring the challenges of the concerto form. Each programme features one of today's most celebrated soloists and is prefaced by an essay by Previn himself.
'It's easy to see', he says 'why the concerto idea possesses such appeal, fusing the brilliance of a virtuoso soloist, with the demands of a large scale composition.'
Tonight he is the soloist in: Mozart's Piano Concerto in G (K 453) directing from the keyboard the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS Sound BRIAN STRUGNELL Lighting STAN SNAPE
Executive producer DENNIS MARKS Written and directed by HERBERT CHAPPELL
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