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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 67

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 67: Part 2: Prom 67 (part 2): Arvo Part, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saens

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Prom 67

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 67 (part 2): Arvo Part, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saens

2013

Prom 67 (part 2): Arvo Part, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saens

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Paavo Jarvi conducts the Orchestre de Paris in music by Berlioz and Saint-Saens.

Conclusion of a Prom in which Paavo Jarvi leads the Orchestre de Paris. Berlioz: Overture (Le corsaire). Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) (soloist: Thierry Escaich).

Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz and Saint-Saëns performed by the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi live at the BBC Proms with Janine Jansen as soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley


Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten: Violin Concerto


8.15pm Interval

8.35pm
Berlioz: Overture 'Le corsaire'
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ'


Janine Jansen (violin)
Thierry Escaich (organ)
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi (conductor)

The Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten was written by Arvo Pärt in response to his sense of loss for a composer he had never met but whose music he describes as possessing the "unusual purity" he himself sought as a composer. Britten's own Violin Concerto was written during the composer's war-time years in New York, "I feel so deeply about this piece...one experiences the incredible strength of it" says tonight's soloist Janine Jansen. In the second half of the concert Paavo Järvi leads his Orchestre de Paris in two French works: firstly the Mediterranean swagger of Berlioz's overture 'Le corsaire' and then the weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint-Saëns 'Third Symphony' which concludes a concert that journeys from Estonian introspection to Gallic extrovert display.

An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Friday 6th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 67

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Orchestra de Paris under Paavo Jarvi in music by Part, Britten, Berlioz and Saint-Saens

Martin Handley presents a Prom in which the Orchestra de Paris under Paavo Jarvi performs music by Part, Britten, Berlioz and Saint-Saens

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