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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 20

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 20: Part 1: Prom 20 (part 1): Walton, Gurney and Sally Beamish

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Prom 20 (part 1): Walton, Gurney and Sally Beamish

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins in music by Gurney and Sally Beamish.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Gurney: War Elegy. Sally Beamish: The Singing (James Crabb: accordion).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins live at the BBC Proms. Music by Ivor Gurney commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of World War I, plus Sally Beamish & Walton.

Gurney: War Elegy
Sally Beamish: The Singing

8.20pm Interval (see separate billing)

8.40pm
Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

James Crabb (accordion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra explores responses to conflict across the generations. Gassed while fighting in the trenches in 1917, Gurney never fully recovered. His War Elegy (1920) is a characteristically personal lament - heavy with bittersweet sadness and regret. While not explicitly programmatic, the slow movement of Walton's First Symphony is among the 20th century's most poignant orchestral cries of grief - an echo in the 1930s, perhaps, of horrors past, and a foreshadow of horrors yet to come.

Sally Beamish's accordion concerto 'The Singing' will replace the earlier billed Violin Concerto, which has been cancelled due to performer illness. Originally premiered in 2006 by tonight's soloist, James Crabb, the piece commemorates the Highland Clearances. Meditating on the displacement of Scottish Highland communities in the 19th century to far shoreside allotments, and the emigration of yet others to the New World, Beamish uses Gaelic psalm and working songs, bagpipe pibrochs and birdsong to give voice to the story.

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 5th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 20

Prom 20

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins in music by Walton, Gurney and Sally Beamish.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of World War I. With music by Walton, Gurney and Sally Beamish

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