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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2014 Repeats: Prom 49: Russian Fairy Tales

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05/09/2014

Prom 49: Russian Fairy Tales

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BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Ravel, Tiensuu, Szymanowski and Rimsky-Korsakov.

A Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ravel: Mother Goose. Jukka Tiensuu: Voice verser. Szymanowski: Songs of a Fairytale Princess. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade.

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo at the BBC Proms last month. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, atmospheric Szymanowski songs and Ravel's Mother Goose ballet.

Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London

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

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)

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.

First broadcast 23rd August 2014.

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