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Radio 3 in Concert: Steven Osborne's Rachmaninov

Steven Osborne's Rachmaninov

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Steven Osborne's Rachmaninov

The pianist joins Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO for Rachmaninov's Second Concerto.

BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov perform Edmund Finnis's The Air, Turning, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, with Steven Osborne, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform a work by Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, February 2017.

Presented by Kate Molleson


Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2

8.20 Interval

8.40
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

Steven Osborne (piano)
Ilan Volkov (Conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Another chance to hear a concert originally broadcast live in February 2017. From their home at the City Halls in Glasgow the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, explored two familiar Russian works of ostentatious virtuosity, and a work by composer Edmund Finnis. His piece The Air, Turning received its world premiere performance at the concert.
Then Rachmaninov's oft-quoted Second Piano Concerto. One of the most commonly heard pieces on the concert platform, despite its ferocious technical difficulties: tackled by Steven Osborne.
And the evening concluded with Rimsky-Korsakov's opulent Sheherazade, a work which in 1888 pushed the very limits of creative orchestration. A tuneful masterclass in orchestral sound-painting and tale-telling, taking as it does inspiration from stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

Photo:  Steven Osborne (credit, Ben Ealovega)

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