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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 35

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 35: Part 3: Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius - Part 3

Prom 35

Part 3 Part 3: Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius - Part 3

2010

Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius - Part 3

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Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Danish National SO in Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Thomas Dausgaard's Prom with his Danish orchestra and choirs concludes with Sibelius' Fifth Symphony.

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish orchestra and choirs in an expansive, almost cosmic, programme. 

Three short choral pieces by György Ligeti - including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - take us to ethereal heights, while Ligeti himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Rued Langgaard's 1918 Music of the Spheres as prefiguring his own style.

Tchaikovsky's captivating concerto and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final-movement 'Swan Hymn' climax, complete the evening.

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

Henning Kraggerud (violin)
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano)
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Monday 16th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2010

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 116th season of the BBC Proms

Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish ensembles in an expansive, cosmic programme

Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish orchestra and choirs in an expansive, almost cosmic, programme, featuring choral pieces by Ligeti, plus music by Tchaikovsky's Langgard and Sibelius

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