Prom 27

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Sohal, Naresh (b. 1939)	The Cosmic Dance (BBC commission, world première)
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor, Op.30
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Symphony no. 5 in E minor, Op.64

Performers

Nikolai Lugansky	Piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian	Conductor

The Proms Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues
with the musky melancholy of the Fifth as conductor
Peter Oundjian makes his Proms debut. Nikolai
Lugansky is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano
Concerto, notorious for its technical demands yet
based around melodic ideas of great simplicity.
Punjabi-born British composer Naresh Sohal’s
second Proms commission, The Cosmic Dance,
examines the idea of creation as interpreted in
two very different disciplines: mathematical theory
and the ancient texts of the Upanishads and the
Rig Veda.

Tickets £7.50 - £36.

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