Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Prom 53: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Emily Howard, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov

Live at 大象传媒 Proms: RLPO and conductor Vasily Petrenko play Emily Howard and Rachmaninov, and are joined by cellist Alexey Stadler in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto.

Live at 大象传媒 Proms: RLPO and conductor Vasily Petrenko play Emily Howard and Rachmaninov, and are joined by cellist Alexey Stadler in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Emily Howard: Torus (Concerto for Orchestra) (大象传媒 co-commission with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major

20:25 PROMS INTERVAL: Sir Henry Wood and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony.
Conductor Benjamin Pope examines Wood's own score of Rachmaninov's Third Symphony at the Royal Academy of Music, with Professor Raymond Holden, to see what it can tell us today.

20:45
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor

Alexey Stadler, cello
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

'A composer's music should express his love affairs, his religion, the books that have influenced him, the pictures he loves.' So said Rachmaninov, whose Third Symphony does just that through irrepressible yearning and longing. It forms the culmination of this Prom in which the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its Russian Chief Conductor perform Shostakovich's disquieting First Cello Concerto.

A brand-new work by Liverpool-born composer Emily Howard opens the concert.

PROMS INTERVAL: Sir Henry Wood and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony.
Conductor Benjamin Pope visits the Royal Academy of Music to see the Proms founder Sir Henry Wood's own copy of the score of Sergei Rachmaninov's Third Symphony. He meets Professor Raymond Holden to discuss the relationship between conductor and composer, and to find out what we can learn from this score today.

Producer Rebecca Bean.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Emily Howard

    Torus

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 3 in A minor

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major

    Performer: Alexey Stadler. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande from Suite No 2 in D minor

    Performer: Alexey Stadler.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 3 in A minor

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch. Featured Artist: Annelien Van Wauwe.
  • Vincent Youmans Arr Shostakovich

    Tahiti Trot

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K.136

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Thu 25 Aug 2016 19:30

The home of classical music and the Proms on the 大象传媒

Every Proms concert is broadcast live on Radio 3 - don't miss a single one.