Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
| Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) | Candide: Overture | |
| Gershwin, George (1898-1937) | Piano Concerto in F | |
| Ives, Charles (1874-1954) | Symphony no. 2 |
Performers
| Inon Barnatan | Piano |
| Minnesota Orchestra | |
| Osmo Vänskä | Conductor |
A great American orchestra marks Leonard Bernstein’s 100th-anniversary year with a concert of 20thcentury American classics that represent Bernstein in his multiple guises as composer, conductor and pianist. The breathless exuberance of Bernstein’s Candide overture is extended by Inon Barnatan in Gershwin’s Concerto in F major, which filters the composer’s popular jazz idiom through classical structures and Lisztian virtuosity. Premiered by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1951, Ives’s attractive Second Symphony melds European techniques with an all-American sound-world.
Tickets £9.50 - £50
