Wed 20 Jul 2022

• 19:30

  Prom 8: Russian Romance and Icelandic Elements

  Royal Albert Hall

  Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave a darkly dramatic soundscape, including music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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  Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave a darkly dramatic soundscape, including music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

  Programme

  • • • Jóhann Jóhannsson
      • The Miners’ Hymns – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh(10 mins)
    • • Sergey Rachmaninov
      • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor(35 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Hildur Guðnadóttir
      • The Fact of the Matter(15 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’(19 mins)

  Performers

  • Denis Kozhukhin

    piano
    piano
  • BBC Singers
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Dalia Stasevska

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson
  • Sergey Rachmaninov
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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