BaL 2.11.24 - Prokofiev: Piano concerto 2

[Nick Armstrong]

Maybe not but she's a very fine artist and well worth searching out.

[jch48]

The second is a gap for me but the universe has been aligning itself to give me a chance. I didn't enjoy it when Lauren Zhang won BBC young musician with it in 2018. Number one is a favourite and the third I enjoy if I stumble across it but don't seek it out. However meeting someone about to perform it and it being on BAL have given me the nudge to try it and it's now live on Radio 3. I suspect for me it will be like the third

[pastoralguy]

According to the current Radio Times, today’s BaL is the Prokofiev 2nd piano concerto. Is this a repeat, a mistake or have I simply missed something?

[Pulcinella]

According to the current Radio Times, today’s BaL is the Prokofiev 2nd piano concerto. Is this a repeat, a mistake or have I simply missed something?

If you look at this thread (or maybe today's) you'll see that there was confusion on the website, which presumably found its way to RT.

Today's programme (16 November 2024) is on Berlioz' Nuits d'été.

[pastoralguy]

If you look at this thread (or maybe today's) you'll see that there was confusion on the website, which presumably found its way to RT.

Today's programme (16 November 2024) is on Berlioz' Nuits d'été.

Thanks!

[visualnickmos]

Kun Woo Paik, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (Naxos)
and
Michel Béroff, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (EMI/Warner)
on the shelves here.

There is no BBC MM CD (of any of the piano concertos, in fact!).

Both superb recordings. As for the winner; great playing - as one woud expect, but for me I felt it was a tinge overly-showy....

[Maclintick]

The concerto features in a BBCSO concert in the Barbican on 6 December 2024, being broadcast on R3 on 11 December 2024.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/yeol-eum-son-plays-prokofievs-second-piano-concerto

Programme

James Lee III Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula (UK premiere)
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2
Ottorino Respighi Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Yeol Eum Son piano

A very well-attended concert, the audience extremely attentive and pleasingly cough-free, with a significant Korean contingent. Yeol Eum Son displayed her formidable pianistic prowess in the concerto, volcanic in the 1st movt cadenza, wonderfully alive to those many quicksilver changes of mood. I couldn’t place her encore — Liszt or Godowsky perhaps ? Excellent support from Antonio Mendez, replacing Jonathan Heyward at short notice, impressively fluid and decisive in James Lee III’s firecracker of an opener & the second half Respighi.