13 Aug 2018

BBC Proms 2018 - Week Two

From Music Alive, 7:30 pm on 13 August 2018

'It is the best thing I have ever done'

This year the BBC Proms shines the spotlight on the oft-neglected realm of female composers with works by 22 women featuring over the course of the season. On Monday night, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales pays tribute to two women whose careers were cut short by tragically early deaths: Prix de Rome winner Lili Boulanger who died aged 24 and Wales's Morfydd Owen who died aged 27.

Tansy Davies

Tansy Davies Photo: BBC

On Friday night English contemporary composer Tansy Davies’ work ‘What did we see’ is part of a programme exploring light and dark. The BBC Philharmonic performs Davies’ orchestral suite which she composed out of material from her 9/11-inspired opera ‘Between Worlds’. This sits alongside Brahms’ more optimistic Second Symphony and pianist Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto.

Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler Photo: Public Domain, E. Bieber-Kohut

On Tuesday night the BBC National Orchestra of Wales along with five choirs presents one of the grandest symphonic statements of the repertoire with Mahler’s Symphony No 8 in E flat major, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’.

Mahler called it '…the best thing I have ever done.’ And it is a grand way to farewell principal conductor Thomas Søndergård in his final season with the orchestra.

The Proms Schedule this Week:

Monday 13 August 2018

7.30 Music Alive

BBC Proms 2018: Youthful Beginnings

Bertrand Chamayou (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård

BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps; D’un soir triste;

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25; OWEN: Nocturne; SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

Tuesday 14 August 2018

12.00 Upbeat

Including: 1.00 BBC Proms 2018

Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov

Alisa Weilerstein (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Karina Canellakis

BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture Op 62;

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107;

NORMAN: Spiral;

RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

7.30 Music Alive

BBC Proms 2018: Mahler Symphony of a Thousand

Tamara Wilson, Camilla Nylund, Joélle Harvey (sopranos), Christine Rice (mezzo), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Simon O'Neill (tenor), Quinn Kelsey (baritone), Morris Robinson (bass), Southend Boys’ & Girls’ Choirs, BBC & London Symphony Choruses, BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård

MAHLER: Symphony No 8 in Eb, Symphony of a Thousand

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

Wednesday 15 August 2018

7.30 Music Alive

BBC Proms 2018: Sibelius, Schubert & Zimmermann

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Louis Lortie (piano), BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds

WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude;

SCHUBERT: Die junge Nonne; Gretchen am Spinnrade D118; Lied der Mignon; Der Erlkönig D328;

ZIMMERMANN: Symphony in One Movement;

SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C D760, Wanderer;

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

Friday 17 August 2018

7.30 Music Alive

BBC Proms 2018: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’

Paul Lewis (piano), BBC Philharmonic/Ben Gernon

T DAVIES: What Did We See? Suite from Between Worlds;

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor;

BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

Saturday 18 August 2018

7.30 Music Alive

BBC Proms 2018: An Alpine Symphony

Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov

MOZART: Notturno in D, K286;

HAAS: Concerto Grosso No 1;

STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony Op 64

Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)

 

 

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