| Orchestra or Band | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Little Threepenny Music', Weill,
Piano Concerto', T Ades
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.3 in A Minor', Rachmaninov |
| Performance Notes | Rachmaninovs 150th-anniversary celebrations continue with the composers final Symphony, a work tinged with yearning. Only one place is closed to me, Rachmaninov wrote after his exile in the USA, and that is my own country, Russia.
Following in the virtuoso tradition of Rachmaninov is Thomas Adèss Piano Concerto, performed here by Kirill Gerstein, who gave the 2019 premiere. The works sardonic brilliance finds an echo in the suite from Kurt Weills Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), with its famous Ballad of Mack the Knife.
Coming after last weeks visitors from Boston (where the Adès concerto was premiered), tonight we welcome the esteemed Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra 100 this year making its Proms debut under Chief Conductor since 2017, Vladimir Jurowski.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Digital Photographs |