19:30 Thursday 31 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev: Overture 'The Oresteia'
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred
Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Continuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer's vividly programmatic symphony Manfred. Translating the struggles of Byron's hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour.
Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer's piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev's brooding Oresteia overture.
Royal Albert Hall
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev: Overture 'The Oresteia'
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred
Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Continuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer's vividly programmatic symphony Manfred. Translating the struggles of Byron's hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour.
Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer's piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev's brooding Oresteia overture.
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