大象传媒

The 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales join forces with American conductor James Feddeck for a performance of Anna Clyne's Proms curtain-raiser, Masquerade, and two Russian masterworks that found their fame not in Russia, but in America: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.

Clyne took inspiration from 18th-century promenade concerts in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens for her Masquerade, which she wrote a decade ago for the Last Night of the Proms. 125 years earlier again, Tchaikovsky was just finishing the final revisions to his first Piano Concerto. It's the work that established his fame in America, thanks in part to its dedicatee, Hans von B眉low, who gave its first performance in Boston. Tonight, the soloist is Daniel Ciobanu. While the first half features works written by composers fairly early in their compositional journey, after the interval we move to the final major composition of Rachmaninov, his Symphonic Dances. It was probably the only work he wrote entirely in the USA, which Rachmaninov filled with an irrepressible energy and quotes from his previous compositions, and it is considered one of his greatest orchestral achievements.

Recorded on the 11th of May in St David's Hall, Cardiff, and presented by Linton Stephens.

7.30pm
Anna Clyne: Masquerade
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23, TH 55

8.15pm
Interval Music (from CD)

8.35pm
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Daniel Ciobanu (piano)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
James Feddeck (conductor)