Programme Details
John Wilson conductor
Emanuil Ivanov piano
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
John Wilson, Henry Wood Chair of Conducting, leads the Academy Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Rachmaninov’s exuberant First Piano Concerto featuring the inaugural Sulamita Aronovsky Fellow, Emanuil Ivanov.
The evening concludes with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which shook the musical world at its 1913 premiere, and went on to become one of the most influential works in music history.