Rachmaninoff & Friends: Boris Giltburg

BBC Radio 3 Rush Hour Concert. Please note start time.

Fri 11 Feb 2022 6.00pm - 7.00pm

LSO St Luke's, London

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2 in D minor
Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor

Boris Giltburg piano

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions, £5 under-18s)

NB Unallocated seating

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Please note that finish times are approximate and subject to change

Pianist Boris Giltburg performs sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev – despatches from a world in turmoil, played by a virtuoso for whom the notes are only ever the start of the story.

As imperial Russia careered toward chaos and revolution, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev channelled the spirit of a turbulent age. Rachmaninoff’s tempestuous First Piano Sonata takes its cues from Dante; Prokofiev, a generation younger, wrote his restless Second Sonata beneath the gathering storm-clouds of 1914. Few living performers capture that power like the Russian-born Boris Giltburg, a pianist whose aim, he says, is ‘to delve deeper and deeper into the world behind the notes’.

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