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BBC Proms: 2018

BBC Proms: 2018: Proms at ... The Roundhouse: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta

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Proms at ... The Roundhouse: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta

21/07/2018

2018

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Live at the BBC Proms: the London Sinfonietta perform Ives, Stravinsky and Messiaen.

Live at the BBC Proms: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta in music by Ives, Stravinsky, Messiaen and four premieres marking 100 years since the end of World War One.

Live at BBC Proms: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta in music by Ives, Stravinsky and Messiaen plus a quartet of premieres marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Live from the Roundhouse, London 
Presented by Tom Service

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version)
Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
London Sinfonietta
Conductor Sir George Benjamin

The Proms returns to Camden's Roundhouse - a former railway engine shed reinvented as a spectacular contemporary space - with a programme of 20th- and 21st-century works.

Composer-conductor George Benjamin directs new-music specialists, the London Sinfonietta - celebrating its 50th anniversary this year - in a concert that continues our series marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Alongside a quartet of war-themed premieres (co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW), the programme features Stravinsky's homage to Debussy, the elegant Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Messiaen's monumental tribute to the dead of both world wars, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, and Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, whose haunting solo trumpet famously raises 'the perennial question of existence'.

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 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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