91Èȱ¬

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic in Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Grace-Evangeline Mason: ABLAZE THE MOON - 91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1

c. 8.10 Interval
Hot-foot from the piano stool, pianist Stephen Hough pops into the Radio 3 box at the Royal Albert Hall to talk to Tom McKinney about his recent memoir, Enough.

c. 8.30
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic, alongside musicians from the college, under Mark Wigglesworth, perform a concert of early-career works. Former RNCM student Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto – a work full of Romantic passion and ‘youthful freshness’, written while the composer was still a teenage student.

Mahler’s First Symphony began life as a tone-poem, and vivid echoes still remain in the birdsong, fanfares, storms and funeral march of the spirited final work.

The concert opens with a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason. RNCM graduate Tom McKinney presents for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3.