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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 16 - Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

August 18, 2016, 5:54 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 16 - Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet



Live at BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac van Steen with Chloë Hanslip play the world premiere of Michael Berkeley's Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet







Dukas: La Péri

Michael Berkeley: Violin Concerto (World premiere; BBC commission)

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet



Chloë Hanslip (violin)

Diego Espinosa (tabla)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor)



Paul Dukas's brief, intoxicating ballet La Péri opens tonight's Prom, before Chloë Hanslip gives the world premiere of a new Violin Concerto by Michael Berkeley.

Jac van Steen conducts excerpts from one of the most dramatic and colourfully scored of all ballets, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, a highlight of our series marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.



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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 17 - Berlioz, Beethoven and Brahms

August 18, 2016, 5:56 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 17: - Roger Norrington conducts Berlioz, Beethoven and Brahms



Live at BBC Proms: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR conducted by Sir Roger Norrington in Berlioz and Brahms, and pianist Robert Levin joins for Beethoven's Fourth Concerto



Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict - overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

Robert Schumann: Intermezzo from Faschingsswank aus Wien

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance no.5 in G minor



Robert Levin, piano

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

Sir Roger Norrington, conductor



New sounds always emerge from Sir Roger Norrington's historically informed adventures with his old friends from Stuttgart.



Tonight he turns his attention to the joyous overture from Berlioz's Shakespearean comedy Beatrice and Benedict and two works central to the Austro-German tradition: Beethoven's Fourth Piano...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 18 - Mahler, Symphony No 3

August 18, 2016, 6:00 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 18: Mahler - Symphony No 3



Live at BBC Proms: in the 50th-anniversary year of his first appearance at the Proms, Bernard Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's longest symphony, the Third, with mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.



Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor



Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano),

London Symphony Chorus (women's voices),

Tiffin Boys' Choir,

London Symphony Orchestra,

Bernard Haitink (conductor)



On the shores of the Attersee in Upper Austria, the hut still stands in which Gustav Mahler set about creating one of the most overwhelming visions of nature in all art. The composer's Third Symphony harnessed the expanse that surrounded him. Horns bray and trombones growl in the face of nature's primeval power; human voices move from grief to hope before, as Mahler declared, 'nature in its totality rings and resounds'.



In the 50th-anniversary year of his...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 21 - Aurora Orchestra, Wolfgang Rihm, Strauss and Mozart

August 19, 2016, 3:20 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 21: Aurora Orchestra - Wolfgang Rihm, Strauss and Mozart



Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon in Wolfgang Rihm and Mozart's Symphony No 41 'Jupiter', and François Leleux joins for Strauss's Oboe Concerto.



Music:



Wolfgang Rihm: Gejagte Form (2002 version)

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, 'Jupiter'



Commentary:



It's difficult to imagine how Mozart could have followed his final symphony, the 'Jupiter' - a work of such scale, majesty and intensity. Tom Service and Nicholas Collon unpick Mozart's continuous stream of joy and invention, allowing us to get under the skin of this great work, which the Aurora Orchestra plays from memory.



Before it, one of the world's leading oboists, François Leleux, plays Strauss's twisting, singing Oboe Concerto - itself preceded by Wolfgang Rihm's...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 22 - Ravel, Lera Auerbach and Debussy

August 19, 2016, 3:50 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 22 - Ravel, Lera Auerbach and Debussy



Live at BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus and violinist Vadim Gluzman in a new work by Lera Auerbach. Plus Debussy's La Mer.



Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie (Symphony No.3 for violin, choir and orchestra)

(BBC co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: UK premiere)

Debussy orch. Roger-Ducasse: King Lear - incidental music

Debussy: La Mer



Vadim Gluzman, violin

Nina Bennett, soprano

Helen Neeves, soprano

Andrew Watts, countertenor

Tom Raskin, tenor

Andrew Rupp, bass

Crouch End Festival Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner conductor



Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach's The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie is her Symphony No.3 - for...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 23 - Jörg Widmann, Schumann, Sibelius and Nielsen

August 20, 2016, 1:10 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 23: Jörg Widmann, Schumann, Sibelius and Nielsen



Live at BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in the UK premiere of Jörg Widmann's Armonia and Nielsen's Symphony No.5. They are joined by Thomas Zehetmair for Schumann's Violin Concerto.





Jörg Widmann: Armonica (UK premiere)

Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor

Sibelius: The Tempest - Prelude

Nielsen: Symphony No.5



Christa Schönfeldinger (glass harmonica)

Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)

Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards (conductor)



John Storgards was the first Finnish violinist to record Schumann's unusual Violin Concerto, but he now steps to the podium, making way for Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Surrounding Schumann's gem of a concerto are the first UK performance of Jörg Widmann's ethereal Armonia, the storm-tossed prelude from Sibelius's eerie depiction of...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 24 - Ginastera, Britten and Schuber

August 20, 2016, 4:13 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 24 - Ginastera, Britten and Schubert



Live at BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic with Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena in music by Ginastera and Schubert. They are joined by Steven Osborne for Britten's Piano Concerto.



Ginastera: Ollantay

Britten: Piano Concerto

Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C major 'Great'



Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)



In his bittersweet Piano Concerto, Britten set out to exploit the piano's 'enormous compass, percussive qualities and suitability for figuration'. The result is a true bravura piece whose razor-sharp edge conceals a gregarious smile. Alongside the first London performance of Alberto Ginastera's very Argentine view of the symphony orchestra comes the inexorable momentum of Schubert's most invigorating symphony, his 'Great' Ninth.



Proms Extra: George Eliot in Germany

Novelist Patricia Duncker, discusses George Eliot,...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 25 - Dvoraks Cello Concerto and Bartoks Duke Bluebeards Castle

August 20, 2016, 4:38 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 25 - Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle



Live at BBC Proms: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit, with Alban Gerhardt (cello). Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Bartok's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.



Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor

Bach: Prelude from Suite No.6 in D major

Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle



Alban Gerhardt, cello

Ildikó Komlósi, mezzo-soprano (Judith)

John Relyea, bass (Duke Bluebeard)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit, conductor



The gothic horror story of Duke Bluebeard prompted some of the most imaginative, descriptive and shocking music Bartók would write. With its huge orchestra, underpinned in this concert performance by the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ, Bartók's score speaks of the darkness of Bluebeard's vast castle and the cold-blooded murder of his six wives.



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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 26 - BBC Symphony Orchestra and Oliver Knussen

August 20, 2016, 5:10 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 26 - BBC Symphony Orchestra and Oliver Knussen



Live at BBC Proms: Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Reinbert de Leeuw's symphonic poem The Night Wanderer and Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with Peter Serkin.



Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op.83

Reinbert De Leeuw: Der nächtliche Wanderer ('The Night Wanderer') (UK premiere)



Peter Serkin, piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen, conductor



When Brahms came to write his Second Piano Concerto more than two decades after his First, out went the confident swagger of a man in his prime and in came a feeling of intimacy and expectation.



Oliver Knussen balances the Brahms with the far-flung world of Der nächtliche Wanderer ('The Night Wanderer') by Dutch composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. Inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin's short poem of the same name, this deftly-coloured symphonic poem has been...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 27 - Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

August 21, 2016, 4:12 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 27 - Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky



Live at BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard with violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's Petrushka



Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures (I - Catterline in Winter)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major

Stravinsky: Petrushka



Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)



Tonight's Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky's landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid folk tale of a puppet springing to life, Stravinsky had the starting point for his stylistic breakthrough, Petrushka, a ballet that would depict Russia with 'quick tempos, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots'.



The first part of a BBC commission from Scottish...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 28: National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland

August 21, 2016, 4:13 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 28: National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland



Live at BBC Proms: National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland in music by Duke Ellington and performances from saxophonist Iain Ballamy and singer Liane Carroll.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor



Iain Ballamy, saxophone

Liane Carroll, piano/vocals

National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland

National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland Choir

Malcolm Edmonstone, piano/conductor

Andrew Bain, conductor



The weekend of Scottish ensembles continues with a visit from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland, whose Late Night Prom marks the Shakespeare anniversary with Duke Ellington's jazz tribute to the Bard, Such Sweet Thunder.

With instruments taking the roles of actors, Ellington's piece broke new ground when it appeared in 1957 as part of a 12-part Shakespeare-themed album, and it still feels...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 29 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

August 21, 2016, 4:15 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain



Live at BBC Proms: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted by Edward Gardner, play Holst, Strauss and a new piece by Iris ter Schiphorst.



Iris ter Schiphorst: Gravitational Waves (BBC co-commission with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain: London premiere)

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Holst: The Planets (incl. Colin Matthews's Pluto, the Renewer)



CBSO Youth Chorus

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Edward Gardner, conductor



Film directors have reached for these works by Strauss and Holst in their attempts to explain the human condition against the infinite background of space.



The depiction of astrological characters in The Planets, from the cheeky game-play of Mercury to the shattering impact of Mars, could be made for the resonance of the Royal Albert Hall. The power of Strauss's...
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Verdi, I due Foscari (live, ROH, Domingo)

August 23, 2016, 4:13 pm
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Verdi's I due Foscari

Opera on 3



Donald Macleod presents Verdi's I due Foscari recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Placido Domingo stars as Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice, and Francesco Meli is his son in this dark tale of secrecy, corruption and murder. Verdi's sixth opera, it has often been neglected compared to some of his later works. The Doge's son, Jacopo Foscari has been jailed and is due to be sentenced. The Doge has the final power of authority and he has to choose between his feelings as a father and his duty of office, but underneath lies a deeper feud between the Foscari and Loredano families.



Antonio Pappano conducts this production recorded in October 2014. With accompanying cast interviews and commentary from Verdi expert, Roger Parker.





Francesco Foscari ..... Plácido Domingo (baritone)

Jacopo Foscari ..... Francesco Meli (tenor)

Lucrezia Contarini ..... Maria Agresta (soprano)
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 31 - Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

August 23, 2016, 4:16 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 31 - Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky



Live at BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Daugaard are joined by pianist Kirill Gerstein in music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring



Prokofiev: Scythian Suite

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor (original version, 1879)

Liszt Transcendental Etude No.7

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring



Kirill Gerstein (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)



The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Designate Thomas Dausgaard round off this weekend's Stravinsky/Scottish series with the work that changed music for ever. In The Rite of Spring rhythm was shockingly prioritised over harmony - and pounding, jagged, brutal rhythm at that.



One of The Rite's most impactful relatives is the Scythian Suite by Stravinsky's compatriot Prokofiev, a blazing...
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Verdi - Luisa Miller (live)

August 23, 2016, 4:26 pm
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Verdi - Luisa Miller

Afternoon on 3, Thursday Opera Matinee



In this afternoon's opera matinee, Penny Gore presents Verdi's Luisa Miller, a romantic opera full of passion and intrigue. It is the story of Luisa and Rodolfo's love, which is challenged by their families' different social standings and ultimately ends in tragedy. This afternoon's performance was recorded in November at the State Opera in Hamburg. It was directed by Andreas Homoki and the Hamburg State Opera is conducted by Simone Young. The Georgian coloratura soprano Nino Michaidze takes the title role and Rodolfo is sung by the Italian-born tenor Ivan Magri.



Presented by Penny Gore.



Verdi

Luisa Miller, opera in three acts



Miller, a retired soldier.... George Petean (baritone)

Luisa, his daughter.... Nino Michaidze (soprano)

Count Walter.... Tigran Martirossian (bass)

Rodolfo, his son.... Ivan Magri (tenor)

Federica, Duchess of...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 32 - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Schoenberg, Dutilleux and Mahler

August 24, 2016, 6:05 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 32 - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Schoenberg, Dutilleux and Mahler



The Philharmonia and Esa-Pekka Salonen play Schoenberg, Dutilleux and Mahler.



Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw

Dutilleux: The Shadows of Time

Mahler Symphony No 1 in D major



David Wilson-Johnson (narrator)

Philharmonia Voices (men's voices)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor



Mahler's First Symphony isn't just the opening chapter of the composer's spiritual autobiography, it's also an awakening in itself. From hushed strings and woodwind cuckoos, it breaks into a forthright stride towards, eventually, a blazing affirmation of camaraderie and confidence.



Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the symphony here with his own Philharmonia Orchestra, following meditations on loss from Arnold Schoenberg and centenary composer Henri Dutilleux, whose The Shadows of Time was inspired by the diaries of Anne...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 33 - Mark Simpson, Dutilleux and Elgar

August 25, 2016, 4:37 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 33 - Mark Simpson, Dutilleux and Elgar



Live at BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic with Juanjo Mena in Elgar, Dutilleux and the London premiere of 'Israfel' by the orchestra's Composer in Association, Mark Simpson.



Mark Simpson: Israfel (London premiere)

Dutilleux: 'Tout un monde lointain...'

Peter Maxwell Davies - Sir Charles His Pavan

Elgar: Symphony No.1 in A flat, Op.55



Johannes Moser (cello)

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)



In his First Symphony, unveiled in Manchester in 1911, Edward Elgar saw beyond the recession in which Britain was languishing to express a 'massive hope for the future'. The symphony's noble main tune appears fragile at first, but when it returns at the end, it's carried home by an ecstatic orchestra filled with a spirit of uplifting optimism. The BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor also present the London premiere of a work by its Composer in...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 35 - Bartok, Malcolm Hayes and Dvorak

August 25, 2016, 4:40 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 35 - Bartok, Malcolm Hayes and Dvorak



Live at BBC Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard play Bartok, Dvorak and Malcolm Hayes.



Bartok: Dance Suite

Malcolm Hayes: Violin Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere)

Dvorak: Symphony No.7 in D minor



Tai Murray (violin)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)



When the London Philharmonic Society asked Dvorak for a new symphony in 1884, the composer knew he had to deliver something special. In the resulting Seventh, the doubts and frustrations Dvorak experienced as a composer are defeated by music that triumphs compellingly over its own nervous energy, bursting into radiant brightness in the final bars. Tonight, Dvorak's most fascinating symphony is heard after Malcolm Hayes's new concerto, a work inspired by the mood and atmosphere of the Outer Hebrides and played by former...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 34 - Dutilleux, HK Gruber and Beethoven

August 25, 2016, 5:25 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 34 - Dutilleux, HK Gruber and Beethoven



Live at BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Dutilleux and Beethoven's Symphony No.5. Trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is the soloist in H.K. Gruber's Busking.



Henri Dutilleux: Timbres, espace, mouvement

H.K. Gruber: Busking, for trumpet, accordion, banjo and string orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67



Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet

Mats Bergström, banjo

Claudia Buder, accordion

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor



Two centuries on, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has lost none of its shattering power. A tirade against destiny, it remains one of the most compelling yet perfect musical arguments ever created. Sakari Oramo conducts it here, after the pulsating drive of HK Gruber's Busking, performed by Håkan Hardenberger, the soloist for whom it was created, and an unusual ensemble of accordion,...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 37 - Walton, Watkins, Webern, Brahms

August 26, 2016, 5:56 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 37 - BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard



Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard play Walton, Webern and Brahms's Fourth Symphony, plus a new cello concerto from Huw Watkins for his brother, Paul.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny



Walton: Partita

Huw Watkins: Cello Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere)

Webern: Passacaglia

Brahms: Symphony No.4 in E minor



Paul Watkins (cello)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard (Principal Conductor)



Thomas Sondergard conducts his BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a Prom exploring the idea of the orchestral 'passacaglia' and some of the most delicious and subtle sonorities ever conjured. Brahms's fourth and final symphony feels like the composer's supreme achievement for orchestra; its finale, a...
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