Part of the BBC Proms. Iconic pianist Martha Argerich returns to the Proms to play both Ravel's jazzy G major Concerto (its blue-note harmonies coloured by the composer's visits to Harlem and Hollywood) and Prokofiev's one-movement Concerto No.1 (the 21-year-old's precocious mix of wrong-note modernism, percussive rhythms and post-Romantic rhapsody). Musorgsky's musical memorial to a dead painter friend was known mainly in its original solo piano form before Ravel added the colours of his unrivalled orchestral imagination. In the International Year of Astronomy, Claude Vivier's intriguing exploration of the echoing vastnesses of outer space is brought to the UK by Charles Dutoit, who conducted its 1980 premiere in Montreal. Approx finish time: 21:35. Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. There will be an interval.| 30 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall Inner London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive |
