Sunday 07 September 2025 at 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Grieg Piano Concerto

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Proms presents: Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, with its heart-on- sleeve melodies and intimate lyricism. The piece is framed by two musical products of war: a haunting elegy by Vaughan Williams’s pupil Ruth Gipps, inspired by a William Blake illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and anniversary-composer Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, a cantata composed for the reopening in 1962 of Coventry Cathedral – part Passion, part howl of human loss, part musical prayer for a ‘troubled world’. 

Programme

Gipps Death on the Pale Horse 8’

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor 30’

Interval

Bliss The Beatitudes 50’

Elizabeth Watts soprano, Laurence Kilsby tenor, Lukas Sternath piano

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo conductor