Wednesday 1/24/24 European Broadcasting Union
11:00 PM
Paul Lewis and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
In 1950s Manhattan, Bernstein’s electrifying dance rhythms punch and kick across the hot city streets. A world away, a composer in exile creates a masterpiece that’s part-symphony, part-ballet, and all Rachmaninov. And in between, Liverpool’s own piano superstar Paul Lewis salutes jazz-age America in Copland’s Piano Concerto and George Gershwin’s irresistible Rhapsody in Blue.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, England
CONDUCTOR: Domingo Hindoyan
SOLOISTS: Paul Lewis, piano*
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Aaron Copland: Piano Concerto*
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue*
Serge Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
