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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 37: Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel
Performance Date15 August 2025
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBenjamin Grosvenor - piano,
Kostas Smoriginas - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC National Orchestra of Wales
ChoirsSynergy Vocals,
BBC National Chorus of Wales (lower voices)
ConductorsRyan Bancroft
Set List'Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band', Sofia Gubaidulina, (UK premiere),
'Piano Concerto in G major', Ravel

INTERVAL

'Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, ‘Babi Yar’', Shostakovich
Performance NotesA jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany, psychedelic groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band – the keystone of a concert that brings these two 20th-century sound-worlds together.

Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance and supple beauty of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, performed by Proms favourite and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony – the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender ‘Babi Yar’, bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1081Grosvenor; Benjamin (1992-); British pianist
DS/UK/20686Smoriginas; Kostas (fl 2007-); Lithuanian bass-baritone
DS/UK/1019British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 1935-; Welsh orchestra
DS/UK/24479Synergy Vocals (fl. 2020s)
DS/UK/23494Bancroft; Ryan (1989); American conductor
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