Record

Performance TitleLang Lang and Herbie Hancock
Performance Date11 July 2009
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:35
Main PerformersLang Lang,
Herbie Hancock - piano
Orchestra or BandPhilharmonia Orchestra
ConductorsJohn Axelrod
Set List'Overture' from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart (Philharmonia Orchestra),
'Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra', Vaughan Williams (Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock, Philharmonia Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair', Debussy (Lang Lang),
'Mother Goose Suite', Ravel (Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock, Philharmonia Orchestra),
'Improvisation of Hits' (Herbie Hancock),
'Rhapsody in Blue', Gershwin (Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock, Philharmonia Orchestra)
Performance NotesAfter their duelling-keys performance together of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the 50th Grammy Awards the hottest pianist on the classical music planet, Lang Lang, and iconic jazz pianist, Herbie Hancock, will join forces in concert for a limited number of European and North American dates later this year.

Lang Lang and Herbie will be performing a programme that will include Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in arrangement for two pianos and orchestra, Vaughan-Williams Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra plus solo, duo and four hand repertoire for piano accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra and conducted by John Axelrod.
Related Archival MaterialHandbill (RAHE/6/2009/34),
Poster (RAHE/2/2009/35),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/jUNjUYJjtQo1ZR
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2009/34Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock11 July 2009
RAHE/2/2009/35Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock11 July 2009
RAHE/8/7/2009/30Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock set list11 July 2009
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ylogcdom_PimLang Lang and Herbie Hancock1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4668Hancock; Herbie (12 April 1940); American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
DS/UK/555Lang; Lang (14 June 1982); Chinese concert pianist
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