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Music: Classical

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 18

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 18: Part 1: Prom 18 (part 1): Mahler, Ravel and Harrison Birtwistle

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Part 1 Part 1: Prom 18 (part 1): Mahler, Ravel and Harrison Birtwistle

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Prom 18 (part 1): Mahler, Ravel and Harrison Birtwistle

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The BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena in music by Birtwistle and Ravel.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena. Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. (soloist: Alexandre Tharaud).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, live at the BBC Proms, perform works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Ravel and Mahler.

Harrison Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

8.15pm Interval

8.35pm
Mahler: Symphony No 5

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

The intense, contrasting moods of Mahler's Fifth Symphony make this one of the great orchestral showpieces, a journey from darkness to light. Before the interval, the BBC Philharmonic is joined by Alexandre Tharaud making his Proms debut in Ravel's virtuosic Left Hand Piano Concerto. The programme opens with the first of several works at this year's Proms celebrating Harrison Birtwistle's 80th birthday, his atmospheric Night's Black Bird.

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 1st August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 18

Prom 18

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 120th season of the BBC Proms.

BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena in music by Ravel, Mahler and Harrison Birtwistle

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Ravel, Mahler and Harrison Birtwistle

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