Rachmaninov Piano

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Episode 4 of 4

Duration: 30 minutes

Another chance to hear a live performance from the 2008 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4 - a composition with a distinctive jazzy quality and a theme in the second movement partially based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. Russian virtuoso pianist Boris Berezovsky performs with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under the baton of conductor Antonio Pappano.

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Credits

Conductor
Antonio Pappano
Musician
Boris Berezovsky
Orchestra
National Youth Orchestra
Director
Matthew Woodward
Executive Producer
Oliver Macfarlane

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