19:30 Tuesday 23 Aug 2016
Royal Albert Hall
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture 'Hamlet'
Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No 3 in C minor
Stephen Hough piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov conductor
In 1919 Prokofiev started work on his opera The Fiery Angel, a touching love story set against the backdrop of demonic possession. He recast much of the opera's most impactful music into his Third Symphony. Alexander Vedernikov conducts it here after Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's devilish and ever-entertaining 'Paganini' Variations, and the final instalment of fellow-Russian Tchaikovsky's three Shakepeare overtures.
Royal Albert Hall
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture 'Hamlet'
Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No 3 in C minor
Stephen Hough piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov conductor
In 1919 Prokofiev started work on his opera The Fiery Angel, a touching love story set against the backdrop of demonic possession. He recast much of the opera's most impactful music into his Third Symphony. Alexander Vedernikov conducts it here after Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's devilish and ever-entertaining 'Paganini' Variations, and the final instalment of fellow-Russian Tchaikovsky's three Shakepeare overtures.
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