London Philharmonic Orchestra: Brief Encounter

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Brief Encounter (film with live orchestra)

David Charles Abell conductor
Jayson Gillham piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra

If any film can be described as iconic, David Lean’s Brief Encounter of 1945 can – a story charged with passion and atmosphere as two ordinary adults discovered something deep and lifechanging on the platform of a suburban railway station. Pulsing through the film like an emotional express train is Rachmaninoff’s heart-rending Second Piano Concerto, rapturously proclaiming everything Laura and Alec felt but dare not speak. At this special concert a screening of the film with live orchestral soundtrack is preceded by a complete live performance of this most rousing of masterpieces, played by the winner of the 2014 Montreal Piano Competition, Jayson Gillham.