Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

BBC Proms

Music: Classical

2024

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: 2015 Season: Prom 54

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 54: Part 1: Prom 54 (part 1): Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Performances & Events

Prom 54 (part 1): Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 54 (part 1): Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

2015

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2015, Prom 54, Prom 54 (part 1): Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Britten and Raymond Yiu.

Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and the world premiere of Raymond Yiu's Symphony, featuring Andrew Watts (countertenor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner, live at the BBC Proms. Britten, Janacek, Nielsen's Flute Concerto with Emily Beynon and a world premiere - Raymond Yiu's Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Raymond Yiu: Symphony (BBC commission: world premiere)

8.25 pm INTERVAL

8.45 pm
Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Janácek: Sinfonietta

Andrew Watts (countertenor)
Emily Beynon (flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Proms regular Edward Gardner continues this year's Nielsen anniversary celebrations with the Flute Concerto - a work that expresses what Nielsen perceived as the instrument's 'Arcadian' quality. This gentle, pastoral quality battles, however, with darker forces, characterfully symbolised by the bass trombone. Both Janácek's Sinfonietta and Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem are also vivid expressions of contrast - in mood, texture and colour. The five movements of the Sinfonietta are all scored for a different - and sometimes unlikely - combination of instruments, while the three episodes in Britten's elegiac Sinfonia da Requiem paint different stages of mourning, from grief to anger and finally an uneasy acceptance. Raymond Yiu's BBC commission is a symphony which features the amazing countertenor voice of Andrew Watts, singing texts by Walt Whitman, Constantine Cavafy,Thom Gunn and John Donne on memories of love and loss.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 10th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 54

Prom 54

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 121st season of the BBC Proms.

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner in Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Proms

2015

Prom 54

Part 1: Prom 54 (part 1): Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3