"Who cares if you miss a note or two? If you're true to the music, THAT's what matters!" So says pianist Simon Trpceski about the pressure of playing a frighteningly difficult piece in front of a concert audience of 6,000, and a broadcast audience of millions. On Monday night, Trpceski joined the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at the BBC Proms in London, playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. We'll hear how it went (he didn't miss many notes), along with a Schumann Overture and the finale of a Tchaikovsky Symphony, both inspired by Lord Byron's tragic hero, Manfred.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: Third movement from Sonata No. 47 in B Minor, Hob. XVI:32
Anton Nel, piano
Robert Schumann: Manfred Overture
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Franz Schubert: Die Forelle (The Trout)
Mark Padmore, tenor, Imogen Cooper, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Robert Schumann: The Lotus Blossom, from Myrthen, Op. 25
Mark Padmore, tenor, Imogen Cooper, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 4 in B Minor and No. 5 in G Minor, WoO. 1
Anton Nel, piano, Bion Tsang, cello
Jordan Hall, Boston
Peter Tchaikovsky: Fourth movement from Manfred Symphony in B Minor, Op. 58
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
John Tavener: Interlude from Requiem
Josephine Knight, cello, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England
Darius Milhaud: Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano from The Traveler with no Baggage, Op. 157b
Erin Keefe, violin, Frank Kowalsky, clarinet, Adam Neiman, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Seattle
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Simon Trpceski, piano, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
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