What's On / Proms by Day
FRIDAY 1 AUGUST
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6.15pm - 7.00pm: Proms Intro Martin Handley in discussion with the RLPO's Andrew Cornall, Kenneth Hesketh and conductor Vasily Petrenko.
Prom 19: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Date Friday 1 August 2008
- Time 8.00pm - c10.05pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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A visit in Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture from the city's Philharmonic and their charismatic young Principal Conductor, Vasily Petrenko. He brings a native's ear to Rachmaninov's bracing Symphonic Dances.
He is joined by another young star for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto - Paul Lewis, whose Beethoven credentials have been cemented by performing and recording the 32 piano sonatas to great acclaim.
To start, a joint BBC/RLPO commission from the orchestra's Composer-in-the-House, the Liverpudlian Kenneth Hesketh, whose first work for the RLPO was premiered when he was only 19.
- Kenneth Hesketh Graven Image (BBC/RLPO co-commission: world premiere) (c15 mins)
- Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 in G major (35 mins)
- Interval
- Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances (35 mins)
Paul Lewis piano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
BBC Radio 3
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