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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 28

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 28: Part 2: Prom 28 (part 2): Beethoven and Stravinsky

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Prom 28 (part 2): Beethoven and Stravinsky

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 28 (part 2): Beethoven and Stravinsky

2014

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Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex.

Leading soloists join the BBC Singers with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Sakari Oramo in a performance of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Stravinsky's Oedipus rex and an electric violin concerto by Brett Dean. Great soloists, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Singers, and conductor Sakari Oramo live at the BBC Proms.

Beethoven: Egmont - overture, Op. 84
Brett Dean: Electric Preludes

8.10pm Interval

8.30pm
Stravinsky: Oedipus rex

Francesco d'Orazio (electric violin)

Oedipus ..... Allan Clayton (tenor)
Jocasta ..... Hilary Summers (mezzo soprano)
Creon ..... Juha Uusitalo (bass-baritone)
Tiresias ..... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Messenger ..... Duncan Rock (bass-baritone)
Shepherd ..... Samuel Boden (tenor)
Rory Kinnear (speaker)
BBC Singers (men's voices)
BBC Symphony Chorus (men's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Sakari Oramo conducts one of the great 20th-century dramatic showpieces - Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Driving with powerful inevitability to its climax, this monumental work matches Sophocles's tragedy in its visceral horror.

Brett Dean is the BBC Symphony Orchestra's new Artist in Association. His Electric Preludes for electric violin and string orchestra were commissioned for Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and were inspired by visual stimuli, including art by native Aboriginal artists and the internet.

The Prom opens with Beethoven's powerful Egmont Overture.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 28

Prom 28

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.

2014 Season

All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven, Brett Dean and Stravinsky

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Brett Dean and Stravinsky

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