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BBC Proms: Proms 2020: Paavo Jarvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra

Paavo Jarvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra

Proms 2020

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Another chance to hear Paavo Jarvi conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

Paavo Jarvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto, with Benjamin Grosvenor, and Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony.

From the 2020 BBC Proms, another chance to hear Benjamin Grosvenor perform Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi, bookended by Ravel’s neo-baroque masterpiece Le tombeau de Couperin and Mozart’s titanic Symphony No 41.

The sophisticated, transfigured baroque dances of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin offset Shostakovich’s boisterous Piano Concerto No 1, with its cheeky sprinkling of quotations from classical giants Beethoven and Haydn among others. 

These two works of neo-baroque and neo-classical influences are followed by Mozart’s final symphony, the ‘Jupiter’, a high point of the ‘true’ classical-period canon. Nicknamed posthumously for its majestic first movement and epic finale, the work is a summation of Mozart’s entire symphonic output with its unique blend of grandeur and subtlety.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1

Mozart: Symphony No 41, K551 (Jupiter)

Jason Evans (trumpet)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)

BBC Proms: Proms 2020

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Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2020 BBC Proms season.

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