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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Brahms & Prokofiev

A festive celebration of love, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Vedernikov and pianist Martin Helmchen, presented by Adam Tomlinson.

A festive celebration of love, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Vedernikov and pianist Martin Helmchen, presented by Adam Tomlinson from Birmingham's Symphony Hall.

Two magical tales tonight, beginning with Brahms's Second Piano Concerto. Hardly the "tiny, tiny piano concerto with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo" Brahms described, it travels from tenderness to ebulliance, via a heartfelt slow movement whose theme would later inform the poignant Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer of his Op 105 songs. Then a fairytale happy ending: Alexander Vedernikov's arrangement of Prokofiev's enchanting Cinderella. Pumpkins, dwarves and ugly sisters abound, but what Prokofiev "wished to express above all... was the poetic love of Cinderella and the Prince, the birth and flowering of that love, the obstacles in its path, and finally the dream fulfilled." All together now - aaaah!

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
INTERVAL
Prokofiev: Cinderella - highlights (arr. Vedernikov)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 8 Dec 2017 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

    Performer: Martin Helmchen. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata no. 2, Op. 120 no. 2

    Performer: Sharon Kam. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella (Highlights)

    Music Arranger: Alexander Vedernikov. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich glaube, lieber Herr (Cantata No 109)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 8 Dec 2017 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3