Grieg鈥檚 Piano Concerto
19:30
Sun 7 Sep 2025
Royal Albert Hall
Programme
- Death on the Pale Horse(8 mins)
- Piano Concerto in A minor(30 mins)
- interval
- The Beatitudes(50 mins)
Performers
- Elizabeth Wattssoprano
- Laurence Kilsbytenor
- Lukas Sternathpiano
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Composers
About This Event
Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg鈥檚 beloved Piano Concerto, with its heart-on-sleeve melodies and intimate lyricism. The piece is framed by two musical products of war: a haunting elegy by Vaughan Williams鈥檚 pupil Ruth Gipps, inspired by a William Blake illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and anniversary-composer Arthur Bliss鈥檚 The Beatitudes, a cantata composed for the reopening in 1962 of Coventry Cathedral 鈥� part Passion, part howl of human loss, part musical prayer for a 鈥榯roubled world鈥�.
Elizabeth Watts 漏 Marco Borggreve
