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Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

BBC Proms2025

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka are joined by Vadym Kholodenko to perform Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka are joined by Vadym Kholodenko to perform Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Grażyna Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

c.8.20pm
Interval
Composer Roxanna Panufnik joins Hannah to put Lutosławsk's Concerto for Orchestra into context

c.8.40pm
Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra

Vadym Kholodenko, piano
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

A Romantic classic meets two 20th-century masterworks in a concert of widescreen orchestral drama. From its thunderous opening chords to its heartbreaking slow movement, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is an emotional tour de force. Vadym Kholodenko joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka. Framing the concerto are two orchestral showpieces: Bacewicz’s vibrant Concerto for String Orchestra – whose motoric outer movements contrast with a sublime Andante – and the daring invention of Lutosławski’s folk-inspired Concerto for Orchestra.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 Jul 202519:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Concerto for String Orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto No. 2 In C Minor Op.18

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Polka Of V. R. In A Flat Major

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    O Mother of God (Arr. for Tenor & Bass Choir)

    Conductor: Vladimir Gorbik. Conductor: Vladimir Gorbik. Choir: PaTRAM Institute Male Choir. Choir: PaTRAM Institute Male Choir.
    • More Honourable Than the Cherubim.
    • Chandos.
    • 601.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Rondo in C major, Op 73

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Wed 30 Jul 202519:30
    BBC Radio 3