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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 63 - Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky
Performance Date31 August 2017
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersKirill Gerstein - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSemyon Bychkov
Set List'Overture ‘The Oresteia’, Taneyev, (First performance at Proms),
'Piano Concerto No.1 in F Sharp Minor', Rachmaninov
INTERVAL
'Manfred', Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesContinuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer’s vividly programmatic symphony Manfred.

Translating the struggles of Byron’s hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour.

Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov’s youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer’s piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev’s brooding Oresteia overture.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/108),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/28, 32)
Ticket Prices£6-£40.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/108BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 63 - Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky31 August 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/968Gerstein; Kirill (1979-); American-Russian pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/983Bychkov; Semyon (30 November 1952); Soviet conductor
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