BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 41 - Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto (320kbps .mp3)
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.
01. Ligeti - Lontano
01a. Introduction to Ligeti’s Lontano
02. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
02a. Introduction to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
03. Stravinsky - The Firebird - Finale (transc for piano by Guido Agosti) (encore)
03b. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 41 - Interval
Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett to talk about Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.
04. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor
04b. Outro to Shostakovich’s 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.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Broadcast: 15 August 2023