Main Performers | Sir Stephen Hough - piano |
Set List | 'ABLAZE THE MOON', G-E Mason, 'Piano Concerto No.1 in F Sharp', Rachmaninov INTERVAL 'Symphony No.1 in D Major', Mahler |
Performance Notes | In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, former student Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninovs First Piano Concerto a work full of Romantic passion and youthful freshness, written while the composer was still a teenage student.
Hough is joined onstage by the Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who also perform Mahlers First Symphony complete with birdsong, fanfares, storms and a funeral march and a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason.
BBC commission and world premiere of 'ABLAZE THE MOON', Grace-Evangeline Mason.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC television. |
Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ 31), Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ 37), Digital Photographs |