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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 30: Rachmaninov's 'Second Piano Concerto'
Performance Date6 August 2023
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAlim Beisembayev - piano
Orchestra or BandSinfonia of London
ConductorsJohn Wilson
Set List'D’un Matin de Printemps', L Boulanger,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor', Rachmaninov.
ENCORE
Stravinsky
INTERVAL
'Symphony No 1 in B Flat Minor', W Walton
ENCORE
Gershwin
Performance NotesJohn Wilson and his orchestral supergroup the Sinfonia of London return to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto.

The concert opens with Lili Boulanger’s mercurial tone-poem D’un matin de printemps, composed shortly before her tragically early death at the age of only 24. Walton’s First Symphony provides the arresting conclusion: a young man’s musical manifesto, composed between the two World Wars, it’s a white-hot outpouring of personal conflict that resolves (or does it?) into a glowing ceremonial finale.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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/932Wilson; John (1972-); British conductor, founder of the John Wilson orchestra
DS/UK/5336City of London Sinfonia; 1971-; English orchestra
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