Maestro Gergiev will be conducting a marathon of Prokofiev concerts at the BBC Proms in London.
28 July will see Valery Gergiev’s traditional performance at the annual BBC Proms series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Today the maestro will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra – an ensemble of which Valery Gergiev was invited to become Principal Conductor in 2004 following a triumphant performance of a series of all of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Symbolically, this year the maestro will again be presenting a Prokofiev “integral” – just one evening will see a performance of all five of Prokofiev’s piano concerti. the festival’s audience will have the unique opportunity to hear three internationally acclaimed pianists and compare their interpretations. Two concerti will be performed by Sergei Babayan, two by his pupil Daniil Trifonov and in Piano Concerto No 4 (for the left hand), commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and rarely performed on the concert stage, the solo will be performed by Alexei Volodin.
The marathon of Prokofiev’s piano concerti is a project that Valery Gergiev has run several times with different orchestras both in Russia and abroad. In April 2012 this cycle was performed at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre as part of the III International Piano Festival. In the autumn of 2014 it featured on several occasions during the Mariinsky Orchestra’s international tours under the baton of maestro Gergiev, including at the Age of Prokofiev festival in Germany and Austria as well as at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts in China.
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