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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Wednesday - BBC Proms - Benjamin Grosvenor

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Wednesday - BBC Proms - Benjamin Grosvenor

BBC Proms 2023

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Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Debussy, Liszt and Ravel in recital at the BBC Proms.

Benjamin Grosvenor gives a piano recital including music by Debussy, Liszt and Ravel at the BBC Proms. Plus, Corelli at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Presented by Fiona Talkington, including another chance to hear Benjamin Grosvenor's piano recital at the BBC Proms, playing an arrangement of Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Liszt's Réminiscences de Norma, as well as Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and La valse.

Also, this week we hear from a concert of baroque music with the period ensemble Concerto de’ Cavalieri, recorded at the recent Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. Today we've Arcangelo Corelli's Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6 No. 4.

Including:

2pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Sunday 16th July)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Borwick) 
Liszt: Réminiscences de Norma

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

c.2.30pm
Proms Artist Choice by Benjamin Grosvenor
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2

c.2.50pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Sunday 16th July)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Ravel: La valse

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

c.3.40pm
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, op. 6/4
Concerto de’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023

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Every day during the summer, Afternoon Concert includes performances from a recent Prom.

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