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Sunday Concert: Halle and Mark Elder at the BBC Proms 2011

Halle and Mark Elder at the BBC Proms 2011

24/07/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Concert, Halle and Mark Elder at the BBC Proms 2011

Mark Elder conducts the Halle in works by Sibelius, Janacek and Bartok.

A Prom in which Mark Elder conducts the Halle. Sibelius: Symphony No 7. Janacek: Sinfonietta. Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist: Andras Schiff).

BBC PROMS 2011
Prom 9. Presented by Martin Handley

Two works by Sibelius begin this concert with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Scènes Historiques Suite No 2 reveals the composer's lighter side, opening with The Chase, in which horns are heard through the mist, followed by a wild chase, with impelling rhythms. The great Seventh Symphony has long been admired for its intensity and concision; its conclusion has been called "the grandest celebration of C major there ever was".

Bartók's last completed concerto was written in conditions of great poverty and adversity during the composer's exile in New York, but none of this is apparent from the work itself., which is generally melodic, mellow, even nostalgic in tone. It is championed here by András Schiff, appearing at the Proms for the first time since his 2006 solo recital. And, to close, a joyous sequence of sonic snapshots: Janácek's Sinfonietta is his typically bold evocation of a beloved city, the Moravian regional capital, Brno.


Sibelius: Scènes historiques - Suite No. 2
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Janácek: Sinfonietta

András Schiff (piano) 
Hallé 
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).

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