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Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov

Name: Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov
Start: 2023-07-18T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Philharmonic

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In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, former 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. Hough is joined onstage by the Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who also perform Mahler’s First Symphony – complete with birdsong, fanfares, storms and a fun...

Program

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 (Titan)

Composer

Sergey Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 1

Composer

Grace-Evangeline Mason - Ablaze The Moon

Participants

Mark Wigglesworth

Conductor

Sir Stephen Hough

Piano

BBC Philharmonic