BBC Proms 2023

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BBC Proms: 2023: Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

2023

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Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Ligeti and Shostakovich. Alexandre Kantorow joins them for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: pianist Alexandre Kantorow joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vasily Petrenko in music by Beethoven, György Ligeti and Shostakovich.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

György Ligeti: Lontano 
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

Interval 
Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett to talk about Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Tchaikovsky Competition-winner Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as ‘Liszt reincarnated’ and a ‘fire-breathing virtuoso’. Still in his twenties, the young pianist makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, joining Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s poetic Piano Concerto No. 4. Music of terror and despair, frenzied horror and – eventually – a flicker of triumph supply a musical portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Shostakovich’s impassioned Symphony No. 10, while more abstract orchestral soundscapes come courtesy of anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.

02:50 György Ligeti - Lontano
20:53 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
56:15 Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird: Finale (transc for piano by Guido Agosti)
1:00:29 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett
1:24:25 Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 in E minor

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