Prom 6 (18.7.12): Lam, Rachmaninov & Prokofiev

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Wednesday 18 July at 7.00 p.m.
Royal Albert Hall

Fung Lam: Endless Forms (c9 mins) - BBC Commission, World Premiere
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (35 mins)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor (43 mins)

Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Again, an interesting piece of mixed programming. I hope no-one is going to suggest that those who like Prokofiev will probably dislike Rachmaninov. :wink eye:

I'm unfamiliar with Fung Lam.

[3rd Viennese School]

why aint it on tely?

the first time I ever heard Prokofiev 6 was live on telly in September 1996.

I have seen it live though. In January 1993.

A rareity. I will be listening!


3VS

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Sakari Oramo is replacing an indisposed JB for this one.

[amateur51]

Sakari Oramo is replacing an indisposed JB for this one.

Thanks for this EotStoat - Mr Oramo getting his eye in early before taking over from JB?

[Serial_Apologist]

The Forms can't be very Endless if the piece only lasts 9 minutes!

[Bryn]

The Forms can't be very Endless if the piece only lasts 9 minutes!

Perhaps Fung Lam was sorting out visa applications at the time of composition.

[Barbirollians]

Sakari Oramo is replacing an indisposed JB for this one.

JB has been dead for 42 years !

[EnemyoftheStoat]

JB has been dead for 42 years !

Some people have got a one-track mind!

[Barbirollians]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This Rach 2 may be popular and even hackneyed, but it isn't arf wonderful stuff.

[Hornspieler]

This Rach 2 may be popular and even hackneyed, but it isn't arf wonderful stuff.

I'm just listening now. The piano needs tuning! (and so do the cellos and basses in places)

A ragtag and bobtail performance in my view. As bad as I've ever heard

HS

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm just listening now. The piano needs tuning! (and so do the cellos and basses in places)

A ragtag and bobtail performance in my view. As bad as I've ever heard

HS

I agree with you about the scrappy performance. But I love the music. I've been practising the solo part for years.

[jayne lee wilson]

Well! Wasn't that terrific?!

A TRULY GREAT Prokofiev 6th, played with polish, precision and huge power, quite the best live performance I've heard, and easily on a par with the best on disc - Kitajenko or Rozhdestvensky. The crushing ending drew a few tears from me... how well the performers traced those complex, fluid, episodic structures of the first two movements, yet at times with a strikingly chamber-musical delicacy; then the speed and buoyant attack of the deceptively simple finale, ending in a tragedy as starkly defined as I've ever heard. My hands are shaking a little as I type...

I enjoyed the Fung Lam very much too - perhaps it should have been called "Endless Melody" as it traced a glowingly beautiful, flowing curve across its short span, through a very wide dynamic range.

Excellent engineering tonight via HDs.
Have Oramo and the BBCSO done the Prokofiev 6th before? There was a gleam and discipline to the sound in these two pieces that surprised me. Is there really a possibility that Oramo may take the helm?

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Well! Wasn't that terrific?!

A TRULY GREAT Prokofiev 6th, played with polish, precision and huge power, quite the best live performance I've heard, and easily on a par with the best on disc - Kitajenko or Rozhdestvensky. The crushing ending drew a few tears from me... how well the performers traced those complex, fluid, episodic structures of the first two movements, yet at times with a strikingly chamber-musical delicacy; then the speed and buoyant attack of the deceptively simple finale, ending in a tragedy as starkly defined as I've ever heard. My hands are shaking a little as I type...

I enjoyed the Fung Lam very much too - perhaps it should have been called "Endless Melody" as it traced a glowingly beautiful, flowing curve across its short span, through a very wide dynamic range.

Excellent engineering tonight via HDs.
Have Oramo and the BBCSO done the Prokofiev 6th before? There was a gleam and discipline to the sound in these two pieces that surprised me. Is there really a possibility that Oramo may take the helm?

Sakari is principal conductor from FNOP 2013, Jayne.

Totally agree re the Prokofiev, heard from the arena.