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BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 54

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 54: Part 1: Turner, Barber, Sibelius - Part 1

Prom 54

Part 1 Part 1: Turner, Barber, Sibelius - Part 1

2010

Turner, Barber, Sibelius - Part 1

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2010, Prom 54, Turner, Barber, Sibelius - Part 1

BBC SO/David Robertson in Turnage: Hammered. Barber: Violin Concerto.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson in Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hammered (world premiere). Barber: Violin Concerto (soloist - Gil Shaham).

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson, conducts two enduring works by composers who fashioned a new aesthetic out of Romantic roots, and the world premiere of a new commission in his 50th-birthday year from jazz-inspired Mark-Anthony Turnage, who has resolved not to write 'an old man's piece'! 

The expansive melodies and edgy pace of centenary composer Samuel Barber are at their most powerful in the Violin Concerto, played here by Israeli-American virtuoso Gil Shaham. Sibelius's Second Symphony traces a path from terse drama to great affirmation. 

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hammered Out 
(World Premiere - BBC co-commission with Los Angeles Phiharmonic)
Barber: Violin Concerto

Gil Shaham, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor

This Prom is repeated on Wednesday 8th September at 2.00pm.

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

David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Turnage, Barber and Sibelius

David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two enduring pieces by Barber and Sibelius - composers who fashioned a new aesthetic out of Romantic roots - and a world premiere from Turnage

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