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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 61

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 61: Part 1: Prom 61 (part 1): Rachmaninov, Glinka and Zhou Long

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Prom 61 (part 1): Rachmaninov, Glinka and Zhou Long

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 61 (part 1): Rachmaninov, Glinka and Zhou Long

2014

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Lan Shui conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in music by Glinka and Zhou Long.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Lan Shui. Glinka: Overture (Ruslan and Lyudmila). Zhou Long: Postures (Andreas Haefliger: piano).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Christopher Cook

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Andreas Haefliger live at the BBC Proms, opening with Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila overture, and closes with Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.


Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila - overture
Zhou Long: Postures (European premiere)

8:12pm Interval

8:32pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 2 in E minor

Piano: Andreas Haefliger
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui (Conductor)

Continuing the World Orchestras strand this year, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut under Music Director Lan Shui, bringing with it the European premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer Zhou Long's Piano Concerto - a fusion of Western forms and Eastern memories.

The concert opens with the overture to Glinka's fairy-tale opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, which weaves three melodies together with intricate skill. We end with Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, in which the composer overcame his early artistic doubts to produce an expansive work with a brilliant, vivacious scherzo and one of his very loveliest slow movements.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 61

Prom 61

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All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

Lan Shui conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Glinka, Zhou Long and Rachmaninov

Lan Shui conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in music by Glinka, Zhou Long and Rachmaninov

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