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Kidane, Prokofiev and Nielsen

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Photo of conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts three works that respond in different ways to the pandemic, to a personal loss and to the devastation of war.  

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his second concerto in 1912-1913 while still a student at the St Petersburg conservatory and premiered it with himself as soloist. The work was dedicated to his friend and fellow student Maximilian Schmidthof who took his own life just as Prokofiev was completing the score. It’s a work which makes fierce technical demands on the soloist – not least in the work’s cadenzas.
 
In neutral Denmark during the First World War, Carl Nielsen, looked on in horror as Europe was torn apart. The composer’s Symphony No. 4 erupts in violence, forcing two sets of drums to tear into one another from either side of a fissile orchestra. Before that we enter an oasis of calm courtesy of composer Daniel Kidane, whose Be Still is a reflection on a common experience of spring 2020 in which time itself appeared to stand still.

Tagged with: Classical music BBC Symphony Orchestra Multibuy - Jan-Jul 2022 BBC Symphony Orchestra

The performance ends at approximately 9.30pm, with a 20-minute interval

Produced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme*

Daniel Kidane Be Still
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2
Carl Nielsen Symphony No 4, Inextinguishable

*Please note that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 2 will be performed instead of the originally advertised Medtner’s Piano Concerto No 3. Fri 29 Apr 2022

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor
Denis Kozhukhin* piano

* Nikolai Lugansky’s performance has been postponed and the BBC SO is grateful to Denis Kozhukhin for stepping in at short notice. Fri 29 Apr 2022

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