| Main Performers | Benjamin Grosvenor - piano,
David Goode - organ |
| Set List | 'Elegia Eroica', Casella,
'Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor', Chopin
INTERVAL
'Symphonic Variations', Franck,
'Symphony No.3 in C Minor, 'Organ'', Saint-Saens |
| Performance Notes | Casella's haunting 'Heroic Elegy', dedicated to the 'unknown soldier', continues our series of works written in the shadow of the First World War.
Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 22, returns for his fourth Proms appearance in Chopin's lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto; he is also the soloist in Franck's Symphonic Variations once a Proms favourite (performed here on 60 occasions), though it has been largely absent since the 1960s.
Saint-Saëns's 'Organ' Symphony continues the French theme. 'With it I have given all I could give,' the composer observed. 'What I did I could not achieve again.'
Benjamin Grosvenor signed autograph at the end of the concert in Door 6.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/81),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide |