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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 27: Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

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05/08/2016

Prom 27: Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

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Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC SSO in music by Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, BBC SSO under Thomas Dausgaard. Helen Grime: Catterline in Winter (Two Eardley Pictures). Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D. Stravinsky: Petrushka.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard with violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's Petrushka

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

Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures (I - Catterline in Winter)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major

7:50 INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Composer Helen Grime in conversation, recorded at the Royal College of Music

8:10
Stravinsky: Petrushka

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Tonight's Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky's landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid folk tale of a puppet springing to life, Stravinsky had the starting point for his stylistic breakthrough, Petrushka, a ballet that would depict Russia with 'quick tempos, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots'.

The first part of a BBC commission from Scottish composer Helen Grime - a two-part work whose complementary second 'Picture' can be heard in Prom 30 - prefaces this concert's arrival in Russia via all the despair, passion and determination of Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto.

PROMS EXTRA: Helen Grime
The composer Helen Grime talks to Andrew McGregor about the first part of her new two-part commission, Two Eardley Pictures, and discusses the inspiration and ideas behind her work. A Proms Extra event recorded at the Imperial College Union in London.
Producer, Andy King.

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