Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov

Live at the BBC Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Grace-Evangeline Mason: ABLAZE THE MOON - BBC commission: world premiere
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1

c. 8.10 Interval
Hot-foot from the piano stool, pianist Stephen Hough pops into the Radio 3 box at the Royal Albert Hall to talk to Tom McKinney about his recent memoir, Enough.

c. 8.30
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, the BBC Philharmonic, alongside musicians from the college, under Mark Wigglesworth, perform a concert of early-career works. Former RNCM 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.

Mahler’s First Symphony began life as a tone-poem, and vivid echoes still remain in the birdsong, fanfares, storms and funeral march of the spirited final work.

The concert opens with a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason. RNCM graduate Tom McKinney presents for BBC Radio 3.