Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms. The Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, perform Brahms's Symphony No 2 and, with Yuja Wang, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3.
Live Â鶹Éç Proms: The Staatskapelle Dresden with Myung-Whun Chung and Yuja Wang in works by Rachmaninov and Brahms.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
c.8.15pm
Interval Proms Plus: Each year Proms Plus and the Free Thinking programme invite a leading author to talk about their career. Mark Haddon - author of the literary and theatrical super-hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - discusses the ideas in his latest novel, The Porpoise. The book re-imagines the legend of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the subject of an epic work by the English poet Gower, and a play by Shakespeare, keeping its central image of a ship at sea, but re-imagining it in a modern age of aviation. He is interviewed by Anne McElvoy. Produced by Fiona McLean. The whole interview will be broadcast as a Free Thinking episode later in September.
c.8.40pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Yuja Wang (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
Explosively virtuosic and a thrilling live performer, Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s emotionally expansive and technically demanding Third Piano Concerto – one of the most challenging in the repertoire.
She joins conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Staatskapelle Dresden – the second of this week’s visiting European orchestras – for a concert that also includes Brahms’s genial Symphony No. 2, whose freshness and spontaneity have drawn comparisons with Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. -
Sergey Rachmaninov
Vocalise (Op.34`14), arr. for misc. forces
Performer: Yuja Wang. -
Vincent Youmans
Tea for Two
Performer: Yuja Wang. -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. -
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. -
Herbie Hancock
Harvest Time
Performer: Herbie Hancock.- The Piano.
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John Luther Adams
Strange Birds Passing (extract)
Ensemble: NEC Contemporary Ensemble. Conductor: John Heiss.- Mode.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Conifer.
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- Thu 5 Sep 2019 19:30Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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