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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 61

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 61: Part 2: Prom 61 (part 2): Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

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Prom 61

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 61 (part 2): Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

2013

Prom 61 (part 2): Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2013, Prom 61, Prom 61 (part 2): Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers in music by Charlotte Seither and Stravinsky.

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Charlotte Seither: Language of Leaving (BBC commission: world premiere). Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947).

BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and Josep Pons live at the BBC Proms. Stravinsky's Petrushka, a new work by Seither, and Frank Peter Zimmerman plays Brahms's much-loved Violin Concerto.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer


German composer Charlotte Seither adapts the words of the 17th-century poet Francesco de Lemene in a new work for the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, using voices and syllables as spots of 'human colour'. Josep Pons conducts this world premiere alongside the 1947 version of Stravinsky's Petrushka, the a cappella motets Ave Maria and Pater noster, and the four-minute novelty Scherzo à la russe, written in Hollywood for the bandleader Paul Whiteman.

Another German, the distinguished violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, plays the concerto that Johannes Brahms composed for his great friend, Joseph Joachim.


Stravinsky: Scherzo à la Russe
Stravinsky: Ave Maria
Stravinsky: Pater noster
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

7:50pm Interval

8:10pm
Charlotte Seither: Language of Leaving (BBC Commission: world premiere)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947)

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)


This Prom will be repeated on Monday 2nd September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 61

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 119th season of the BBC Proms.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

Louise Fryer presents a Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and conductor Josep Pons performing music by Stravinsky, Brahms and Charlotte Seither

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