Prom 10 - Bax, Vaughan Williams And Rachmaninov [BBC Proms]

Episodes

EpisodeTitleFirst
Broadcast
Comments
01Prom 10 - Part 120080724Introduced by Petroc Trelawny, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The BBC Philharmonic and its Conductor Laureate present a programme that includes the first public performance of Arnold Bax's In memoriam Patrick Pearse, a work written in memory of one of the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, and only recently found to have been orchestrated.

The orchestra is later joined by Yevgeny Sudbin who makes his BBC Proms debut in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1.

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Bax: In memoriam Patrick Pearse (First public performance)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor.

BBC Philharmonic in Bax's In memoriam Patrick Pearse and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1

02Prom 10 - Part 220080724The Prom concludes with Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 4, dedicated to Arnold Bax.