Prom 12
T2052238953
Part of the BBC Proms.
Archive :: production:T2052238953, concert:S340, venue:V221
Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov
Following her exciting Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra last year, rising young American conductor Karina Canellakis returns to direct the orchestra in two 20th-century Russian masterpieces. Although composed just three years before his death, Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances pulse with exhilarating rhythmic energy, while Shostakovich's much-loved First Cello Concerto features Alisa Weilerstein in the solo part originally composed for the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Violence and tenderness battle in Beethoven's Coriolan overture and a UK premiere by Andrew Norman completes the programme.
