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Sunday Concert: Prom 70 - Bridge, Birtwistle, Holst

Prom 70 - Bridge, Birtwistle, Holst

11/09/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Concert, Prom 70 - Bridge, Birtwistle, Holst

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Holst Singers/David Robertson in Bridge, Birtwistle and Holst.

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Holst Singers under David Robertson. Bridge: Isabella. Birtwistle: Concerto for violin and orchestra (soloist: Christian Tetzlaff). Holst: The Planets.

BBC PROMS 2011

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham

Head into outer space with Holst's planetary survey. Plus Sir Harrison Birtwistle's new Violin 
Concerto - his first for a stringed instrument - and Frank Bridge's Keats-inspired symphonic poem Isabella.

Frank Bridge is at his most romantic and Lisztian in this symphonic poem, given its world premiere at the Proms by founder-conductor Henry Wood.

Birtwistle's Violin Concerto was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Christian Tetzlaff and unveiled by him in March to rave reviews. The composer himself studied the clarinet, although he says, 'I had some violin lessons at school, so I have a memory of the physical feel of the instrument, in a sense. It's rather like remembering how to bowl a leg break in cricket, even if I couldn't do it now.'

Holst's The Planets displays astonishing verve in its orchestration and in the radicalism of much of its content for its time.

Bridge: Isabella
Harrison Birtwistle: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (UK Premiere)
Holst: The Planets

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Holst Singers 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
David Robertson (conductor).

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