BBC Proms 2020 Season - Vasily Petrenko conducts Rachmaninov and Shostakovich (2016) (320kbps .mp3)

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

BBC Proms: ‘A composer’s music should express his love affairs, his religion, the books that have influenced him, the pictures he loves.’ So said Rachmaninov, whose Third Symphony does just that through irrepressible yearning and longing. It forms the culmination of this performance from the 2016 Proms archive, in which the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its Russian Chief Conductor performed Shostakovich’s disquieting First Cello Concerto, joined by cellist Alexey Stadler. The concert opens with Liverpool-born Emily Howard’s Torus, inspired by the doughnut-shaped form of ‘the whole with a hole’.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

01. Emily Howard - Torus (Concerto for Orchestra) (world premiere)
01a. Introduction to the Petrenko prom
02. Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1
02a. Introduction to Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1
03. Bach, J. S. - Sarabande from Cello Suite No2 in D minor [encore]
03a. Interval - interview with Thelma Handy (joint leader of the RLPO)
04. Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 3 [encore]
05. Youmans - Tahiti Trot (‘Tea for Two’ orch.  Shostakovich)

Alexey Stadler (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

(From the BBC Proms 2016, 8 September)