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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: The Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka are joined by Vadym Kholodenko to perform Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.

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

Grażyna Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

c.8.20pm
Interval
Composer Roxanna Panufnik joins Hannah to put Lutosławsk's Concerto for Orchestra into context

c.8.40pm
Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra

Vadym Kholodenko, piano
The Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

A Romantic classic meets two 20th-century masterworks in a concert of widescreen orchestral drama. From its thunderous opening chords to its heartbreaking slow movement, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is an emotional tour de force. Vadym Kholodenko joins the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka. Framing the concerto are two orchestral showpieces: Bacewicz’s vibrant Concerto for String Orchestra – whose motoric outer movements contrast with a sublime Andante – and the daring invention of LutosÅ‚awski’s folk-inspired Concerto for Orchestra.