Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninov
19:30
Fri 1 Aug 2025
Royal Albert Hall
Programme
- The Chairman Dances(12 mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor(29 mins)
- interval
- Sinfonia(27 mins)
Performers
- Yunchan Limpiano
- Kazuki Yamadaconductor
About This Event
After a 鈥榙azzling鈥� Proms debut last year, pianist and global phenomenon Yunchan Lim returns, joining Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov鈥檚 final piano concerto. Rich in scope and ambition, tinged with the jazz rhythms and harmonies of the composer鈥檚 new homeland, it鈥檚 a technical tour de force. Musical visions from the New World continue in the two other works: John Adams鈥檚 鈥榝oxtrot for orchestra鈥� The Chairman Dances, a surreal set-piece from his hit opera Nixon in China, in which a young Mao Zedong dances with the future Madame Mao; and Berio鈥檚 iconic Sinfonia (dedicated to Leonard Bernstein) 鈥� an explosive, psychedelic remix of classical music鈥檚 past that asks big questions about its future.
Kazuki Yamada 漏 Zuzanna Specjal
