BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 26 - Semyon Bychkov and the Labèques (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of Julian Anderson's Second Symphony and Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

01. Julian Anderson - Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]
01a. Introduction to Prom 26
02. Bohuslav Martinů - Concerto for Two Pianos
02a. Introduction to Martinů
02b. Interval commentary, Prom 26
Nigel Simeone discusses the music in tonight's concert. And Keelan Carew drops in to chat about a couple of his Proms highlights from the last week.
03. Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances

Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Distance and enchantment: whenever Julian Anderson creates a new work, we’re in for a musical experience that ruffles through memories as it ravishes the ears. His keenly awaited Second Symphony takes its cue from old photographs of Prague: a city dear to conductor Semyon Bychkov, and to the exiled Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, whose exuberant double concerto falls into the hands of sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque. As for Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – well, it’s been described as a secret ballet score, a concerto for orchestra and a symphony by any other name. But every note glows with the sorrow of exile, and the undimmed energy of a composer whose inspiration burned fiercer than ever in this last, bittersweet masterpiece.

First broadcast:    5 August 2022      
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