BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 60 - Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Live at the BBC Proms: pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in music by Thomas Adès. Plus Kurt Weill and Rachmaninov.

01. Weill - Little Threepenny Music
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 60
02. Adès - Piano Concerto
02a. Introduction to Adès’ Piano Concerto
03. Rachmaninov - 6 Songs Op.4 , No.3 - V Molchan'I Nochi Taynoy (In the silence of the sacred night) [encore]
03a. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 60 - Interval
Martin Handley talks to tonight's pianist Kirill Gerstein about Rachmaninov.
04. Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 3 in A minor
04a. Outro to Rachmaninov
05. Kreisler - Liebesleid [encore]

Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Rachmaninov’s 150th-anniversary celebrations continue with the composer’s final symphony, a work tinged with yearning. ‘Only one place is closed to me,’ Rachmaninov wrote after his exile in the USA, ‘and that is my own country, Russia.’ Following in the virtuoso tradition of Rachmaninov is Thomas Adès’s Piano Concerto, performed here by Kirill Gerstein, who gave the 2019 premiere. The work’s sardonic brilliance finds an echo in the suite from Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (‘The Threepenny Opera’), with its famous ‘Ballad of Mack the Knife’. Coming after last week’s visitors from Boston (where Adès’s concerto was premiered), tonight we welcome the esteemed Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – 100 this year – making its Proms debut under Chief Conductor Vladimir Jurowski.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Broadcast: 31 August 2023