BBC Proms 2022

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BBC Proms: 2022: Prom 26: Semyon Bychkov and the Labèques

Prom 26: Semyon Bychkov and the Labèques

2022

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Live BBC Proms: the BBC SO and Semyon Bychkov perform Rachmaninov, Anderson and Martinu.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov premiere Julian Anderson's Symphony No 2 followed by Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques.

Live at the BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of Julian Anderson's Second Symphony and Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]
Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Two Pianos

8.25
Interval: Nigel Simeone discusses the music in tonight's concert.  And Keelan Carew drops in to chat about a couple of his Proms highlights from the last week.

8.45
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Distance and enchantment: whenever Julian Anderson creates a new work, we’re in for a musical experience that ruffles through memories as it ravishes the ears. His keenly awaited Second Symphony takes its cue from old photographs of Prague: a city dear to conductor Semyon Bychkov, and to the exiled Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, whose exuberant double concerto falls into the hands of sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque. As for Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – well, it’s been described as a secret ballet score, a concerto for orchestra and a symphony by any other name. But every note glows with the sorrow of exile, and the undimmed energy of a composer whose inspiration burned fiercer than ever in this last, bittersweet masterpiece.

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