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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky
Performance Date1 August 2024
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersDenis Kozhukhin - piano
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsPhilharmonia Chorus
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'Three Places in New England', Ives,
'Piano Concerto in G major', Ravel,
INTERVAL
'Nocturnes', Debussy,
'Francesca da Rimini', Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesTchaikovsky was no stranger to unhappiness in love, and his symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini allows us to eavesdrop on his pain in heart-rending autobiographical detail as the composer retells Dante’s tale of a noblewoman’s infidelity and subsequent casting into Hell.

For their Prom, Vasily Petrenko and his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plunge us deep into Tchaikovsky’s signature emotional turmoil after moonlit Debussy, Charles Ives’s own foray into American Impressionism and Ravel’s enthralling, jazz-inspired Piano Concerto under the fingers of the ferociously talented Denis Kozhukhin.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/51BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky1 August 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/21989Kozhukhin; Denis (2 July 1986); Russian pianist
DS/UK/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/3536Philharmonia Chorus; 1957-; English choir
DS/UK/1277Petrenko; Vasily (1976-); Russian conductor
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