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Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov

Live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto.

Live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Grace-Evangeline Mason: ABLAZE THE MOON - ´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1

c. 8.10 Interval
Hot-foot from the piano stool, pianist Stephen Hough pops into the Radio 3 box at the Royal Albert Hall to talk to Tom McKinney about his recent memoir, Enough.

c. 8.30
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, alongside musicians from the college, under Mark Wigglesworth, perform a concert of early-career works. Former RNCM student Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto – a work full of Romantic passion and ‘youthful freshness’, written while the composer was still a teenage student.

Mahler’s First Symphony began life as a tone-poem, and vivid echoes still remain in the birdsong, fanfares, storms and funeral march of the spirited final work.

The concert opens with a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason. RNCM graduate Tom McKinney presents for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Grace-Evangeline Mason

    Ablaze The Moon

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto No. 1 In F Sharp Minor Op.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
  • Anton Rubinstein

    _melody In F Major

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 1 In D Major

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet Op.2 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118: No's 1 & 2

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Brahms: Late Piano Works, Opp. 116-119.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Jul 2023 19:30

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