Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts Copland, George Walker and Prokofiev
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This event took place on Tuesday 16 August 2022.
- Tuesday 16 August 2022
- Royal Albert Hall
Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts Copland, George Walker and Prokofiev
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Need to know
Repertoire
- Copland Appalachian Spring: Suite
- George Walker Trombone Concerto
- Prokofiev Symphony No.5
Features
- Vasily Petrenko Conductor
- Peter Moore Trombone
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore,
South Kensington,
London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it’s one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context – alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical’ – The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don’t always get their due.