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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 55

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 55: Part 1: Prom 55 (part 1): SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

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Prom 55 (part 1): SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 55 (part 1): SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

2015

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The SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg performs music by Boulez.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Boulez: ...explosante-fixe... (with Sophie Cherrier: flute).

Flautist Sophie Cherrier, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg conducted by François-Xavier Roth, live from the BBC Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Pierre Boulez: '... explosante-fixe ...'

8.05 pm INTERVAL

8.25 pm
Ligeti: Lontano 
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra 

Sophie Cherrier (flute)
SWR Experimental Studio 
SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg
François-Xavier Roth (conductor)

Bartók wasn't the first composer to write a Concerto for Orchestra, but freewheeling virtuosity and rhythmic energy set this one apart. Treating individual instruments as soloists or partners in exhilarating duets-to-the-death, Bartók reinvents the orchestra itself. The whole classical canon seems dissolved in Ligeti's Lontano, in which familiar harmonies and styles are suspended in space and time, and resolution continually hangs just out of reach. Turning classical rules of development on their head, Boulez's '... explosante-fixe ...'works backwards, moving from its most complex material to its primary, original source. It's audacious and completely compelling.

This prom will be repeated on Friday 11th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 55

Prom 55

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.

The SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg in music by Boulez, Ligeti and Bartok.

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg in music by Boulez, Ligeti and Bartok

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