Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	23rd August 2013
To	23rd August 2013
When	19:30
Prices	From £7.50. To £36.00.
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 1 May 13 - T0299767776

Prom 55 - Lutoslawski, Shostakovich & Panufnik

Work:: Prom 55 (S5992)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Lutoslawski, Shostakovich & Panufnik (T0299767776)

Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra make their Proms debuts as the festival continues its focus on Polish music during Lutoslawski's centenary year. Written for the Warsaw Philharmonic in 1954, Lutoslawski's virtuosic folk-inflected Concerto for Orchestra creates a unique sound-world. Lauded for his recording of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in the composer's buoyant Piano Concerto No. 2. Andrzej Panufnik's Tragic Overture and Lullaby and Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony paint a vivid picture of two nations in parallel periods of anxiety. Finis time: approx. 22:05

Performer	Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Company	Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor	Antoni Wit

Listing:: L1003447035

Lutoslawski, Shostakovich & Panufnik

Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra make their Proms debuts as the festival continues its focus on Polish music during Lutoslawski's centenary year. Written for the Warsaw Philharmonic in 1954, Lutoslawski's virtuosic folk-inflected Concerto for Orchestra creates a unique sound-world. Lauded for his recording of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in the composer's buoyant Piano Concerto No. 2. Andrzej Panufnik's Tragic Overture and Lullaby and Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony paint a vivid picture of two nations in parallel periods of anxiety. Finis time: approx. 22:05

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