Prom 19: Hesketh, Beethoven & Rachmanino

Kenneth Hesketh Graven Image c15’ BBC/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra co-commission: world premiere Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major 35’ interval Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances 35’ Paul Lewis piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko conductor A visit in Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture from the city’s Philharmonic and their charismatic young Principal Conductor, Vasily Petrenko. He brings a native’s ear to Rachmaninov’s bracing Symphonic Dances. He is joined by another young star for Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto – Paul Lewis, whose Beethoven credentials have been cemented by performing and recording the 32 piano sonatas to great acclaim. To start, a joint BBC/RLPO commission from the orchestra’s Composer-in-the-House, the Liverpudlian Kenneth Hesketh, whose first work for the RLPO was premiered when he was only 19. Tickets cannot be exchanged refunded or resold.