Prom 42: Youthful Beginnings

18 Aug 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sun 18 Aug 2019 Next Event

Proms 2019 Prom 42: Youthful Beginnings

19:30 Sun 18 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall

Belfast鈥檚 Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic music director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann鈥檚 Piano Concerto, a mellow, good-humoured work paired here with two lively first symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich.

Programme

- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Symphony No. 1 in C major(26 mins)
- - Clara Schumann
  - Piano Concerto in A minor(21 mins)
- - interval
- - Sofia Gubaidulina
  - Fairytale Poem(10 mins)
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Symphony No. 1 in F minor(28 mins)

Performers

Mariam Batsashvili
piano
piano
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Belfast's Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic music director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann鈥檚 Piano Concerto, performed here by 成人快手 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili.

Begun when the then Clara Wieck was just 13 years old, it鈥檚 a work whose mellow mood and lyrical melodies conceal no little technical intricacy and formal innovation.

Sunny good humour also runs through both Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No. 1 鈥� famously described as a musical 鈥榗omedy of manners鈥� 鈥� and Shostakovich鈥檚 First Symphony, lively with satirical wit and mischief.

Approx. end time: 21:45

Image: Rafael Payare 漏 BGE