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2012

BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 42

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 42: Part 2: Bartok

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Bartok

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Susanna Malkki conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Susanna Malkki conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Susanna Mälkki conducts the Philharmonia in Prokofiev's dramatically colourful Romeo and Juliet & Bartók's virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra. Viola player Lawrence Power joins them in a challenging new work by Olga Neuwirth.

Susanna Mälkki returns to the Proms with two genre-defining 20th-century favourites. Revisiting the doomed love of Verona's most romantic couple, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet brought new life to the evening-length ballet, just as Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra demonstrated the potential of a seemingly contradictory title.

Between these classics, Lawrence Power joins the Philharmonia Orchestra to tackle the fiendishly difficult solo part in Olga Neuwirth's recent work for viola and orchestra, comprising five breathtaking, seething, allusion-rich movements.

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Lawrence Power (viola)
Philharmonia Orchestra 
Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 26 August at 2.00pm.

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 42

Prom 42

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 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Susanna Malkki conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Prokofiev, Olga Neuwirth and Bartok.

Susanna Malkki conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in music by Prokofiev, Olga Neuwirth and Bartok

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