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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: 2015 Season: Prom 14

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 14: Part 3: Prom 14 (part 3): Prokofiev - The Piano Concertos

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Prom 14 (part 3): Prokofiev - The Piano Concertos

Part 3 Part 3: Prom 14 (part 3): Prokofiev - The Piano Concertos

2015

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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos: No 4 (soloist: Sergei Babayan); No 5 (with Alexei Volodin).

Conclusion of a Prom featuring the LSO under Valery Gergiev. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 4 in B flat (soloist: Sergei Babayan); Piano Concerto No 5 in G (with Alexei Volodin).

The pianists Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin join the LSO and Valery Gergiev to perform the complete Prokofiev Piano Concertos, live at the BBC Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service


Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Concerto

8pm:
INTERVAL

8.20pm: Part 2
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

8.50pm:
INTERVAL

9.10pm: Part 3
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major

Daniil Trifonov (piano) (Concertos 1 & 3)
Sergei Babayan (piano) (Concertos 2 & 5)
Alexei Volodin (piano) (Concerto 4)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor

All five Prokofiev piano concertos in one concert - it's a feat conductor Valery Gergiev achieved in 2012 at the Mariinsky and now brings to the Proms, along with three of his original pianists. It's a rare opportunity to hear three international soloists back-to-back, to compare styles and approaches, as well as to explore the composer's later, lesser-known concertos with their newly expressive tenderness. Daniil Trifonov, the prodigious young winner of the Tchaikovsky and Chopin Competitions, shares the bill with his teacher Sergei Babayan, while Alexei Volodin tackles the rarely heard Fourth, commissioned, like Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 14

Prom 14

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin in all of Prokofiev's piano concertos

A Prom devoted to all five of Prokofiev's piano concertos, featuring soloists Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev

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