Radio 3 in Concert: West to East

From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Presented by Linton Stephens. Kerem Hasan joins the BBC Philharmonic for the final concert of their 2021/2 Manchester season. We start in the American Midwest with Florence Prices's multi-coloured tone-poem "The Oak" and travel to America's east coast for Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F for which the orchestra is joined by the exuberant Xiayin Wang. Jazz-infused interval music by Ukranian-born Nikolai Kapustin transports us from Tin Pan Alley to Soviet Russia, where Shostakovich's unflinching Tenth Symphony ends the programme, his musical signature stamped heavily over its closing pages. Price: The Oak (first UK broadcast). Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F 8.15. Music Interval (CD). Kapustin: Divertissement Op.91. Immanuel Davis (flute), Adam Kuenzel (flute), Pitnarry Shin (cello), Timothy Lovelace (piano). 8.30 Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 Xiayin Wang (piano). BBC Philharmonic. Kerem Hasan (conductor)