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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 41: Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with Behzod Abduraimov
Performance Date17 August 2022
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBehzod Abduraimov - piano,
Elizabeth Watts,
Benjamin Appl - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsThomas Dausgaard
Set List'La Valse’, Ravel.
'Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major’, Beethoven (Behzod Abduraimov)
ENCORE
'Mercutio' from Romeo and Juliet Op.75, Prokofiev (Behzod Abduraimov)
INTEVRAL
'Symphony No.3 - Sinfonia Espansiva’, Nielsen
Performance NotesWaltzes whirl through this programme, as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard present the first of two consecutive Proms pairing one of Carl Nielsen’s groundbreaking symphonies with one of Beethoven’s eloquent piano concertos.

A ‘cosmic waltz’ propels us onto a powerful, elemental trajectory in Nielsen’s Third Symphony, before nature takes a simpler, more bucolic form in the later movements. Solos from British soprano Elizabeth Watts and German-British baritone Benjamin Appl provide the climax to the sumptuous second movement.

Ravel’s dizzying La valse captures the heightened pleasures and tragic collapse of Vienna. Behzod Abduraimov – described by The Independent as ‘the most perfectly accomplished pianist of his generation’ – is the soloist in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.

Behzod Abduraimov took four rounds of applause before giving his encore.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ )
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/67BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 41: Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with Behzod Abduraimov17 August 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1052Dausgaard; Thomas (1963-); Danish conductor
DS/UK/672Abduraimov; Behzod (11 September 1990); Uzbek pianist
DS/UK/6136Watts; Elizabeth (1979-); British soprano
DS/UK/20718Appl; Benjamin (1982); German baritone singer
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