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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto
Performance Date5 August 2024
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBenjamin Grosvenor - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsRodolfus Choir,
London Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsEdward Gardner
Set List'Symphonic Dances 35’, Rachmaninov,
INTERVAL
'Piano Concerto 71’, Busoni
Performance NotesReady for something completely different? Marking the centenary of the composer’s death, Ferruccio Busoni’s gargantuan Piano Concerto is perhaps better described as a symphony in five movements, capped by a male chorus.

Woven through Busoni’s bizarrely wonderful and utterly engrossing score is one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to paper – tackled tonight by British star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Before it, Edward Gardner and his London Philharmonic forces whet the appetite with the snap, crackle and pop of Rachmaninov’s riveting Symphonic Dances.

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/1/2024/57BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto5 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/1081Grosvenor; Benjamin (1992-); British pianist
DS/UK/14826Rodolfus Choir; 1984-; English choir
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/5593Gardner; Edward (1974-); OBE; English conductor
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