Name: Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
Start: 2023-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

John Wilson

Instrumentalist

Benjamin Grosvenor

Piano

Orchestra

Sinfonia of London

Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op.18 Rachmaninoff (+2 More)

Public

Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 18

D’un matin de Printemps

Symphony No 1 in B flat minor

Approved

About This Event
John Wilson and his orchestral supergroup the Sinfonia of London return to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. The concert opens with Lili Boulanger’s mercurial tone-poem D’un matin de printemps, composed shortly before her tragically early death at the age of only 24. Walton’s First Symphony provides the arresting conclusion: a young man’s musical manifesto, composed between the two World Wars, it’s a white-hot outpouring of personal conflict that resolves (or does it?) into a glowing ceremonial finale.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble