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14 Aug 2023, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2023 Prom 40: Martin Helmchen plays Brahms

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Prom 40: Martin Helmchen plays Brahms
19:30 Mon 14 Aug 2023 Royal Albert Hall
German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut in Brahms’s richly Romantic Second Piano Concerto. Sakari Oramo also conducts the ѿý Symphony Orchestra in the Proms premiere of Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp minor.
German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut in Brahms’s richly Romantic Second Piano Concerto. Sakari Oramo also conducts the ѿý Symphony Orchestra in the Proms premiere of Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp minor.

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Award-winning German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut as soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, a vast work full of mercurial mood swings and technical demands. The concerto’s late-Romantic spirit and generous scope find an echo in Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp minor, richly scored and resplendent with brass. Composed during the First World War, when Pejačević worked as a nurse, the work receives its Proms premiere by Sakari Oramo and the ѿý Symphony Orchestra following their critically acclaimed recording.

Image: Martin Helmchen © Giorgia Bertazzi

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