BBC NOW - Rachmaninov, Nielsen

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas from St David's Hall, Cardiff

Llyr Williams Plays Rachmaninov with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Plus Nielsen's Symphony No 5, conducted by Thomas Søndergård

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

Nielsen: Symphony No 5

Llyr Williams, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård, conductor

The heart-felt lyricism of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto contains some of his most personal feelings into which he poured an inexhaustible stream of melody. Collaborating for the first time with Welsh pianist Llyr Williams, Thomas Søndergård conducts it alongside the powerful drama of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony: a cosmic struggle from which arises music of superhuman regenerative energy and power.