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Prom 23: Swan Lake

BBC Proms 2019

Live at BBC Proms. The BBC Philharmonic, with Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon, perform music by Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon in Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sarah Walker

Arnold: Peterloo Overture
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts)

Juan Perez Floristan (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon open with Malcolm Arnold’s dramatic Peterloo Overture in the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Fields in the orchestra’s hometown of Manchester.

Excerpts from Swan Lake, the first of Tchaikovsky’s great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart.

Juan Pérez Floristán is soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with its famous lyrical 18th Variation.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Mon 5 Aug 2019 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Overture 'Peterloo'

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Performer: Alexander Gavrylyuk. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (excerpts)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Gramata cellam (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Singer: Sol Gabetta.
    • SONY.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 420

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Ensemble: Cappella Gabetta.
    • Il Progetto Vivaldi 2: Sol Galbetta.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7-9.

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Aug 2019 19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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