Performances of Kostas Smoriginas at BBC Music

Fri 15 Aug 2025

• 19:30

  Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel

  Royal Albert Hall

  Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, before Shostakovich’s deeply poignant memorial to Jewish suffering, the Symphony No. 13

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  Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, before Shostakovich’s deeply poignant memorial to Jewish suffering, the Symphony No. 13

  Programme

  • • • Sofia Gubaidulina
      • Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band(10 mins)UK premiere
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Piano Concerto in G major(23 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Dmitry Shostakovich
      • Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, ‘Babi Yar’(59 mins)

  Performers

  • Benjamin Grosvenor

    piano
    piano
  • Kostas Smoriginas

    bass-baritone
    bass-baritone
  • BBC National Chorus of Wales

    lower voices
    lower voices
  • Synergy Vocals
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Ryan Bancroft

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Sofia Gubaidulina
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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  Part of

  Proms 2025