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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 49

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 49: Part 2: Prom 49 (part 2): Russian Fairy Tales

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2014 Season

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 49 (part 2): Russian Fairy Tales

2014

Prom 49 (part 2): Russian Fairy Tales

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo in music by Szymanowski and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. Szymanowski: Songs of a Fairytale Princess (with Anu Komsi: soprano). Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo live at the BBC Proms. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, atmospheric Szymanowski songs & Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. 

Princes, princesses, sailors, a sultan, Tom Thumb and the Sleeping Beauty form some of the cast of this concert based around story-telling. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Anu Komsi for Szymanowski's Songs of a Fairytale Princess, and Jukka Tiensuu's Voice Verser, a virtuosic challenge for its singer. In Ravel's Mother Goose and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade it's the orchestra that turns storyteller.


Ravel: Mother Goose - Suite
Jukka Tiensuu: Voice verser (UK premiere)

20.20pm Interval

8.40pm
Szymanowski: Songs of a Fairytale Princess (with three additional songs orchestrated by Sakari Oramo - UK premiere)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Anu Komsi (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 5th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 49

Prom 49

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 SO under Sakari Oramo in music by Ravel, Tiensuu, Szymanowski and Rimsky-Korsakov

A Prom based around storytelling, with Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Ravel, Jukka Tiensuu, Szymanowski and Rimsky-Korsakov

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