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Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms 2025

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Ryan Bancroft, Benjamin Grosvenor, Kostas Smoriginas and Synergy Vocals perform works by Gubaidulina, Ravel and Shostakovich.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Ryan Bancroft, Benjamin Grosvenor, Kostas Smoriginas and Synergy Vocals perform works by Gubaidulina, Ravel and Shostakovich.

Presented by Alexandra Humphreys, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Gubaidulina: Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (UK premiere)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

c.8.10pm
Interval: The writer and academic Philip Bullock joins Alexandra Humphreys to discuss Shostakovich's setting of poetry by Russian writer and novelist Yevgeny Yevtushenko and his musical depictions of Soviet history - including the events at Babi Yar ravine near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in 1941.

c.8.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, Op 113 ‘Babi Yar’

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Synergy Vocals
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band – part of a concert that brings these two sound- worlds together. Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, performed by Proms favourite and former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony – the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender ‘Babi Yar’, bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.

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2 hours, 44 minutes

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Fri 15 Aug 2025 19:30
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Music Played

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Band

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Sonata No 7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: III. Allegretto

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79: V. A Warning

    Singer: Nina Dorliak. Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich plays Shostakovich.
    • Praga Digitals.
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 13: Babi Yar (Adagio)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RCA.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, Op 113, 'Babi Yar'

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Chorus of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Michael Nyman

    Where the Bee Dances

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Orchestra: Nicholas Collon.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • John Dowland

    Time stands still in gazing on her face

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Aug 2025 19:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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