Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel

15 Aug 2025, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 15 Aug 2025 Next Event

Proms 2025 Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel

19:30 Fri 15 Aug 2025 Royal Albert Hall

Former 麻豆社 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Ravel鈥檚 Piano Concerto in G major with the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales, before Shostakovich鈥檚 deeply poignant memorial to Jewish suffering, the Symphony No. 13

Programme

- - Sofia Gubaidulina
  - Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band(10 mins)UK premiere
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Piano Concerto in G major(23 mins)
- - interval
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, 鈥楤abi Yar鈥�(59 mins)

Performers

Benjamin Grosvenor
piano
piano
Kostas Smoriginas
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
麻豆社 National Chorus of Wales
lower voices
lower voices
Synergy Vocals
麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

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

Benjamin Grosvenor 漏 Marco Borggreve

Part of

Proms 2025

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