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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 42: Elgar, Chopin and Strauss
Performance Date16 August 2023
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersSeong-Jin Cho - piano
Orchestra or BandPhilharmonia Orchestra
ConductorsSanttu-Matias Rouvali
Set List'In the South (Alassio)', E Elgar,
'Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor', Chopin
INTERVAL
'Aus Italien', R Strauss
Performance NotesInternational Chopin Piano Competition-winner Seong-Jin Cho is one of the world’s most exciting young pianists, praised for his ‘remarkable technique’ and the elegance of his interpretations.

Who better to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 – a heady combination of brilliance and poetry, its slow movement a vision of ‘a beloved landscape on a moonlit spring night’. Could that landscape perhaps be Italian? Italy’s warmth and summer sunshine suffuse both Elgar’s bucolic In the South overture and Strauss’s tone-poem Aus Italien, each inspired by a visit to the country.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by its Finnish-born Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23495Rouvali; Santtu-Matias (5 November 1985); Finnish conductor and percussionist
DS/UK/557Philharmonia Orchestra; 1945-; British orchestra
DS/UK/22008Seong-Jin; Cho (28 May 1994); South Korean pianist
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