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Prom 60: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms 2023: pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in music by Thomas Adès. Plus, Kurt Weill and Rachmaninov.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms 2023: pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in music by Thomas Adès. Plus, Kurt Weill and Rachmaninov.

Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall.

Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music
Thomas Adès: Piano Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor

Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Another chance to hear Rachmaninov's final symphony, a work tinged with yearning. ‘Only one place is closed to me,’ the composer wrote after his exile in the USA, ‘and that is my own country, Russia.’ Following in the virtuoso tradition of Rachmaninov is Thomas Adès’s Piano Concerto, performed here by Kirill Gerstein, who gave the 2019 premiere. The work’s sardonic brilliance finds an echo in the suite from Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (‘The Threepenny Opera’), with its famous ‘Ballad of Mack the Knife’.

1 hour, 49 minutes

Music Played

  • Kurt Weill

    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
  • Thomas Adès

    Piano Concerto

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    In the silence of the secret night

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No.3 in A minor

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor

    Orchestrator: Henry Wood. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.

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