4/5. The Concert Pianist. With
Donald Macleod. Faced with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and the disintegration of the Old Russia he had grown up with, Rachmaninov chose to emigrate. Once abroad, out of necessity he began to carve out an exhausting life touring as a concert pianist. Etudes Tableaux: in G minor, Op 33 No 8; in Eflatminor, Op 39 No Mikhail Pletnev (piano) The Isle of the Dead, Op 29
St Petersburg PO, conductor Mariss Jansons Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42 Helene Grimaud (piano)
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight