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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 44

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 44: Part 2: Prom 44 (part 2): Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique

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Prom 44 (part 2): Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique

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Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Berlioz's celebrated Romantic work Symphonie fantastique.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Suzy Klein

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis. Passion and despair, love and death, all feature in a programme that roams from the dark fantasy of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique to the soaring ecstasy of Strauss's Don Juan, while Elgar's Cello Concerto adds more delicate shades of melancholy and yearning.

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

7.30pm Interval

7.50pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique


Truls Mørk (cello)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

This season's showcase of global orchestras continues with the Proms debut of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, under its new Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. Together they explore the musical extremes of passion, despair, love and death. Perhaps the most powerful artistic expression of unrequited love, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is a dark, vivid fantasy inspired by the woman who would eventually become his wife.
Strauss too had just married when he composed the soaring love theme of Don Juan. Elgar's last major work, the Cello Concerto, traces more questioning shades of emotion. There's a beautiful melancholy and tentative yearning to this work, coloured by the First World War: an elegy by any other name.

Prom 44 repeat Sunday 31st August 1600-1755.

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 44

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Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Strauss, Elgar and Berlioz

The Proms debut of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, as Andrew Davis conducts music by Strauss, Elgar and Berlioz

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