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BBC SO/Chauhan & Stephen Hough

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Photo of conductor Alpesh Chauhan

Star pianist Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini while Alphesh Chauhan conducts Bruckner’s unfinished final symphony.

In his most famous work, Sergei Rachmaninov pits piano against orchestra in a witty, bolshie and wickedly entertaining duel. Who wins? Find out as Stephen Hough takes on this remarkable piece.

Anton Bruckner’s last, unfinished symphony was intended as his great spiritual autobiography. Even from the three movements the composer did finish, we experience intense power, cataclysmic terror and exquisite tenderness. Fate decreed that the symphony would end with music apparently slow enough to stop time itself – a great, transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner’s epitaph. To begin, the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiere Richard Baker’s orchestral reimagining of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much.

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

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

Produced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme

Richard Baker The Price of Curiosity (world premiere, BBC commission)
Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Anton Bruckner Symphony No 9

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan conductor
Stephen Hough piano

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