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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 62: Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky

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31/08/2016

Prom 62: Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky

2016

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young in Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky.

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young. Bayan Northcott: Concerto for Orchestra. Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5. Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony.

Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young. Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony, Baiba Skride in Mozart's Violin Concerto No.5 and a new work by Bayan Northcott.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Ian Skelly 

Bayan Northcott: Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K219, Turkish

20.20 INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Novelist Tahmima Anam, New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja and Rana Mitter discuss Tagore's writing and his poem The Gardener which inspired music by Zemlinksy in tonight's Prom. 

20.40
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op.18

Baiba Skride, violin 
Siobhan Stagg, soprano 
Christopher Maltman, baritone 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Simone Young, conductor 

Simone Young makes her Proms debut with the world premiere of Bayan Northcott's Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart's Eastern-influenced violin concerto. Then, a rare chance to hear Zemlinsky's setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, an alluring and mysterious slice of late-Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra.

PROMS EXTRA: Tagore
Tonight's Prom features a setting by Zemlinsky of 'The Gardener' by the great Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Novelist Tahmima Anam and New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja, from the University of Cambridge, discuss the poem and Tagore's place in both Bengali and world culture. The discussion is chaired by Rana Mitter who is a regular presenter of Radio 3's Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking and of Sunday Features.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

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