Name: Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells
Start: 2024-04-11
End: 2024-04-11
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Instrumentalist

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Cello

Singer

Soprano

Olga Pudova

Tenor

Pavel Petrov

Baritone

Andrii Kymach

Bariton

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Others

Philharmonia Chorus

Orchestra

Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells

London

United Kingdom

Southbank Centre

Royal Festival Hall

Public

Private

In the South, op. 50

Cello Concerto op. 43

The Bells

Approved

South Bank Centre

Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells: In the South, Op.50 Elgar (+2 More)

In the old Russia of Rachmaninov’s youth, bells rang and chimed throughout the whole of life: the bronze-voiced heralds of joy, terror, love – and oblivion. They peal, too, through Rachmaninov’s great choral symphony The Bells, in music that’s exactly as heartfelt, as gorgeous and as unforgettably tuneful as you’d expect from the composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Rachmaninov thought it was one of his greatest works and Vasily Petrenko agrees, making this London performance a real high point of the series.

It’s the climax of a concert filled with great music that goes beyond your expectations: from Elgar relaxing in the Italian sunshine to a powerful, forgotten cello concerto by Shostakovich’s great friend Mieczysław Weinberg – championed today by the irrepressible Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

English

Icons Rediscovered: Rachmaninov’s The Bells by Elgar, Weinberg, Rachmaninoff, Thu 11 Apr 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Vasily Petrenko, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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