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Afternoon on 3: Proms 2015 Repeats

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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2015 Repeats: Prom 54: Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

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

10/09/2015

Prom 54: Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

Proms 2015 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2015 Repeats, Prom 54: Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek

From Proms 2015: the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen and Janacek.

With a Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Raymond Yiu: Symphony. Nielsen: Flute Concerto. Janacek: Sinfonietta.

Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner in Britten, Janacek and Nielsen's Flute Concerto with Emily Beynon, plus a world premiere - Raymond Yiu's Symphony.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Tom Service

2pm:
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

2.25pm:
Raymond Yiu: Symphony (BBC commission: world premiere)

2.50pm:
Nielsen: Flute Concerto

3.10pm:
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.

[First heard on 25th August]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2015 Repeats

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