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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 63

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 63: Part 1: Ligeti, Wagner, Sibelius

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Ligeti, Wagner, Sibelius

Part 1 Part 1: Ligeti, Wagner, Sibelius

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Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Ligeti, Wagner and Sibelius.

Part of a Prom in which Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Ligeti: Atmospheres. Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude to Act 1). Sibelius: Symphony No 4 in A minor.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle return to the Proms for the first of two concerts with an evening of wide-ranging sonic adventure.

In the first half they present three different approaches to the experience of calm, firstly in Ligeti's slowly shifting sound-clouds, then with Wagner's sustained stillness through to Sibelius's most formidable and bleak evocation of a frozen landscape. The French second half is, in contrast, all about movement and dance. Tennis is not the only game played in Debussy's flirtatious ballet Jeux, while Ravel's suite, drawn from his famous ballet begins with a sunrise and ends in an orgy. 

Ligeti: Atmosphères
Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude, Act 1
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor

Berliner Philharmoniker
Simon Rattle (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 63

Prom 63

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.

The first of two Proms in which Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic

The first of two Proms in which Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. With works by Ligeti, Wagner, Sibelius and Debussy

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