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BBC Proms: 2011 Season: Prom 19

BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 19: Part 1: Honegger, Bridge, Berg

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Honegger, Bridge, Berg

Part 1 Part 1: Honegger, Bridge, Berg

2011

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Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Honegger, Bridge and Berg.

Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Honegger: Pacific 231; Pastorale d'ete. Bridge: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook. Berg: Der Wein (soprano: Claire Booth).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

A typically thought-provoking programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Association, Oliver Knussen, showcasing pieces rarely heard in the concert hall alongside 20th-century classics. 

All the composers are masters of orchestral colour, and each creates a unique and concentrated soundworld. Arthur Honegger's depictions of a steam locomotive and pastoral idyll are followed by Frank Bridge's quietly anguished Shakespearean scene of death by drowning (from Hamlet) and the splintered, wintry fluidity of Italian composer Niccolò Castiglioni.

Soprano Claire Booth (who made her professional debut in the music of Knussen) sings Berg's heady paean to the restorative powers of fermented grape juice. And the concert closes with Debussy's astonishing, inspirational evocation of shifting seas.

Honegger: Pacific 231

Honegger: Pastorale d'été 

Bridge: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook

Berg: Der Wein

Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Monday 1st August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 19

Prom 19

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 117th season of the BBC Proms.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in pieces rarely heard in the concert hall and modern classics

Petroc Trelawny presents BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by its artist-in-association, Oliver Knussen, in pieces rarely heard in the concert hall alongside 20th-century classics.

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