Prom 23: Swan Lake
Live at Â鶹Éç Proms. The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic, with Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon, perform music by Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
Live at Â鶹Éç Proms: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic with Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon in Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sarah Walker
Arnold: Peterloo Overture
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
c.8.10pm
Interval:
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts)
Juan Perez Floristan (piano)
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon open with Malcolm Arnold’s dramatic Peterloo Overture in the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Fields in the orchestra’s hometown of Manchester.
Excerpts from Swan Lake, the first of Tchaikovsky’s great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart.
Juan Pérez Floristán is soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with its famous lyrical 18th Variation.
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Music Played
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Malcolm Arnold
Overture 'Peterloo'
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon. -
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Performer: Alexander Gavrylyuk. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (excerpts)
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon. -
Peteris Vasks
Gramata cellam (2nd mvt)
Performer: Sol Gabetta. Singer: Sol Gabetta.- SONY.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 420
Performer: Sol Gabetta. Ensemble: Cappella Gabetta.- Il Progetto Vivaldi 2: Sol Galbetta.
- Sony Classical.
- 7-9.
Broadcast
- Mon 5 Aug 2019 19:30Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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