BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov (320kbps .mp3)

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

01. Mason, Grace-Evangeline - Ablaze the Moon (BBC commission: world premiere)
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 6
02. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.1
02a. Introduction to Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.1
02b. Outro to Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.1
03. Rubinstein, Anton - Melody in F Major [encore]
03a. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 6, interval commentary
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.
04. Mahler - Symphony No.1 in D major

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, the BBC 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 BBC Radio 3.

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