Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Performers
| Kirill Gerstein | Piano |
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Sakari Oramo | Conductor |
Youthful Proms first-timer, Hong Kong-born Fung Lam,
unveils his Darwin-inspired BBC commission, his first
for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. After the sparkling
success of Kirill Gerstein’s Proms appearance last
year, the pianist returns with Rachmaninov’s ever
popular Second Piano Concerto, the work that
crowned the composer’s recovery from a period of
crippling depression. Prokofiev’s bleak and powerful
Sixth is perhaps the
most personal and
poignant of his
symphonies, completed
in the exhausted
aftermath of the Second
World War amid
worsening pressures on
the Soviet front.
unveils his Darwin-inspired BBC commission, his first
for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. After the sparkling
success of Kirill Gerstein’s Proms appearance last
year, the pianist returns with Rachmaninov’s ever
popular Second Piano Concerto, the work that
crowned the composer’s recovery from a period of
crippling depression. Prokofiev’s bleak and powerful
Sixth is perhaps the
most personal and
poignant of his
symphonies, completed
in the exhausted
aftermath of the Second
World War amid
worsening pressures on
the Soviet front.
