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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 41: Beethoven's 'Fourth Piano Concerto'
Performance Date15 August 2023
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAlexandre Kantorow - piano
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'Lontano', Ligeti,
'Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major', Beethoven
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.10 in E Minor', Shostakovich
Performance NotesTchaikovsky Competition-winner Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as ‘Liszt reincarnated’ and a ‘fire-breathing virtuoso’. Still in his twenties, the young pianist makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, joining Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s poetic Piano Concerto No. 4.

Music of terror and despair, frenzied horror and – eventually – a flicker of triumph supply a musical portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Shostakovich’s impassioned Symphony No. 10, while more abstract orchestral soundscapes come courtesy of anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2023/71BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto15 August 2023
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1277Petrenko; Vasily (1976-); Russian conductor
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