When pianist Lang Lang performed recently at the BBC Proms, he wanted to be closer to the audience. So he put the piano on the main floor of Royal Albert Hall, instead of up on the stage. We'll hear three pieces that were part of his solo piano recital, two Rachmaninoff preludes and a Chopin etude.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two movements from Partita No. 4 in D
Pianist Jeffrey Kahane
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, L. 187 and Sonata in D Minor, L. 422
Pianist Andre Watts
Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D, Op. 107 ("Reformation")
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with conductor Jeffrey Kahane
Royce Hall, Los Angeles
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade in G
The Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo Festival, Palo Alto, California
Hour 2
Edmund Rubbra: "A Tribute," Op. 56
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Richard Hickox
Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 9, Op. 72
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
The BBC Proms, London, England
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B-flat, Op. 23/2 and Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23/5
Pianist Lang Lang
The BBC Proms, London, England
Frederic Chopin: Etude No. 10, Op. 3
Pianist Lang Lang
The BBC Proms, London, England
Peter Tchaikovsky: Three movements from Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathetique")
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Tadaaki Otaka
The BBC Proms, London, England
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