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Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninov

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms 2025

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers with conductor Kazuki Yamada and pianist Yunchan Lim perform Adams, Rachmaninov and Berio.

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers with conductor Kazuki Yamada & pianist Yunchan Lim perform Adams, Rachmaninov & Berio

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor

8.15pm
Interval: Gillian Moore joins Hannah French to uncover the story of Berio's eclectic Sinfonia

8.35pm
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia

Yunchan Lim, piano
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor

After a ‘dazzling’ Proms debut last year, pianist and global phenomenon Yunchan Lim returns, joining Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov’s final piano concerto. Rich in scope and ambition, tinged with the jazz rhythms and harmonies of the composer’s new homeland, it’s a technical tour de force

Musical visions from the New World continue in the two other works: John Adams’s ‘foxtrot for orchestra’ The Chairman Dances, a surreal set-piece from his hit opera Nixon in China, in which a young Mao Zedong dances with the future Madame Mao; and Berio’s iconic Sinfonia (dedicated to Leonard Bernstein) – an explosive, psychedelic remix of classical music’s past that asks big questions about its future

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2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 Aug 2025 19:30
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances - Foxtrot

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto No. 4 In G Minor Op.40

    Performer: Yunchan Lim. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    "Schonste Nacht" from Die stumme Serenade

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.

  • Luciano Berio

    Folk Songs (No 1, Black is the Colour)

    Singer: Linda Hirst. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Diego Masson.
    • Songs Cathy Sang, Music Composed for the Voice of Cathy Berberian. Berio: Folkso.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Luciano Berio

    These are the cries of London town; Money, penny come to me (Cries of London)

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Berio: Coro & Cries of London (Version for 8 Voices).
    • BIS.
    • 36-37.

  • Luciano Berio

    Rendering (after Schubert): 2nd mvmt

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • TUDOR.

  • Luciano Berio

    Sinfonia (1st movement)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Seattle Symphony Media.

  • Luciano Berio

    Sinfonia (3rd movement, In ruhig fliessender Bewegung)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Seattle Symphony Media.

  • Luciano Berio

    Sinfonia

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers.

  • Alessandro Piccinini

    Romancesca con partite variate (Inavalatura di liuto et di chitarrone, 1623)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue (BWV 846) in C major

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 1 Aug 2025 19:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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