Prom 52: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Ryan Wigglesworth

Live at BBC Proms: the Britten Sinfonia with Marc-André Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth, playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Mozart: Concerto in E flat major for two pianos

Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4, 'Mozartiana'
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1897

c.8.15pm: Interval: Musicologist Jonathan Cross introduces Stravinsky’s Divertimento: The Fairy’s Kiss.

c.8.35pm:
Ryan Wigglesworth: Piano Concerto
BBC co-commission with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: world premiere

Stravinsky: Divertimento 'The Fairy's Kiss'

Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Britten Sinfonia
Ryan Wigglesworth, piano and conductor

Arranging four pieces by Mozart in his Suite No. 4, Tchaikovsky pays homage to the composer he regarded as a ‘divinity’.
Tchaikovsky himself was the inspiration for Stravinsky’s ballet The Fairy’s Kiss, shot through with Tchaikovsky’s melodies.
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth also features as both pianist – alongside Marc-André Hamelin in Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos – and composer, with the world premiere of his own Piano Concerto.