5 Jun 2019, MediaCityUK, Salford
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Studio Concerts Piers Hellawell/Shostakovich/ Prokofiev
Piers Hellawell/Shostakovich/ Prokofiev
A live BBC Radio 3 broadcast with conductor Jac van Steen and violinist Aleksey Semenenko
A live BBC Radio 3 broadcast with conductor Jac van Steen and violinist Aleksey Semenenko
Concert information
This live BBC Radio 3 broadcast conducted by Jac van Steen begins with Piers Hellawell’s ‘Wild Flow’ , a work in five movements which premiered at the BBC Proms in 2016.
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko performs one of Shostakovich’s most complex pieces and the last concerto he composed, Violin Concerto No.2
Prokofiev’s Symphony No.6, composed in 1947 as an elegy for the tragedies of the Second World War, completes the afternoon’s performance.