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Proms 2023 Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

Prom 41
Prom 41: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
19:30 Tue 15 Aug 2023 Royal Albert Hall
French pianist Alexandre Kantorow makes his Proms debut in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.
French pianist Alexandre Kantorow makes his Proms debut in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.

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Tchaikovsky Competition-winner Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as ‘Liszt reincarnated’ and a ‘fire-breathing virtuoso’. Still in his twenties, the young pianist makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, joining Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s poetic Piano Concerto No. 4. Music of terror and despair, frenzied horror and – eventually – a flicker of triumph supply a musical portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Shostakovich’s impassioned Symphony No. 10, while more abstract orchestral soundscapes come courtesy of anniversary composer Ligeti’s Lontano.

Image: Vasily Petrenko © Svetlana Tarlova

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