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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 56

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 56: Part 1: Prom 56 (part 1): Holst - The Planets

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Prom 56 (part 1): Holst - The Planets

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London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski in Holst's The Planets.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Holst's The Planets.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski live at the BBC Proms in music by Schoenberg, Scriabin and Holst's the Planets

Holst: The Planets

8.20pm Interval

8.40pm
Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces 
Scriabin: Prometheus - The Poem of Fire

Alexander Toradze (piano)
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)


20th-century music takes three contrasting paths here in masterpieces by Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin.

Tuneful good humour and vivid characterisation see the century at its most approachable in Holst's well-loved The Planets. Scriabin's Prometheus is more eccentric - scored for piano, 'colour organ' and orchestra. This performance of it includes the optional part for choir and responds to the composer's imaginative ideas on colour.

Premiered at the Proms in 1912, Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces take tonality to the limit, anticipating the composer's later development of serialism.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 56

Prom 56

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.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century masterpieces. With works by Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin

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