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Prom 26: Semyon Bychkov and the Labèques

Â鶹Éç Proms 2022

Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov premiere Julian Anderson's Symphony No 2 followed by Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques.

Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of Julian Anderson's Second Symphony and Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [Â鶹Éç co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]
Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Two Pianos

8.25
Interval: Nigel Simeone discusses the music in tonight's concert. And Keelan Carew drops in to chat about a couple of his Proms highlights from the last week.

8.45
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Distance and enchantment: whenever Julian Anderson creates a new work, we’re in for a musical experience that ruffles through memories as it ravishes the ears. His keenly awaited Second Symphony takes its cue from old photographs of Prague: a city dear to conductor Semyon Bychkov, and to the exiled Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, whose exuberant double concerto falls into the hands of sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque. As for Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – well, it’s been described as a secret ballet score, a concerto for orchestra and a symphony by any other name. But every note glows with the sorrow of exile, and the undimmed energy of a composer whose inspiration burned fiercer than ever in this last, bittersweet masterpiece.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Fri 5 Aug 2022 19:30
Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Julian Anderson

    Symphony No. 2 (Prague Panoramas)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.

  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Concerto

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.

  • Philip Glass

    Four Movements for Two Pianos Movt IV

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Labèque.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic Dances Op.45

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite No 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (Prelude)

    Performer: Simone Dinnerstein.
    • J. S, Bach: A Strange Beauty: Simone Dinnerstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Aug 2022 19:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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