Beethoven Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

23rd July 2010 3 hours Season 64 Episode 4

Beethoven Night was a regular and popular feature of the Proms from its very first season in 1895. Charles Hazlewood presents as this tradition is recreated by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who perform two Beethoven overtures and his First and Fourth Piano Concertos with soloist Paul Lewis.

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Season 64 · Episode 5

Miracle on the Mersey

The orchestra that has been at the heart of the Liverpool's cultural life for over 160 years, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, comes to the Proms with its trailblazing Principal Conductor Vasily Petrenko. In a programme of Romantically inspired music, the Phil plays two works based on a poem by Byron: Schumann's Manfred overture and Tchaikovsky's Manfred symphony. The brilliant Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski is the soloist in the ever-popular Piano Concerto No 2 by Rachmaninov.

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