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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 43:  Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky and Scriabin

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Prom 43:  Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky and Scriabin

14/08/2018

2018

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 43:  Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky and Scriabin

Live at the BBC Proms: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim.

Live at the BBC Proms: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, perform Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and David Robert Coleman's Looking for Palestine.

Live at BBC Proms: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim in Tchaikovsky, David Robert Coleman and Scriabin

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

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

8.05pm
Interval Proms Plus: BBC New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes and philosopher Mark Vernon compare figures from the past and present who have searched for a sense of transcendence and experienced ecstatic states. Hosted by Christopher Harding. 

8.25pm
David Robert Coleman: Looking for Palestine
London premiere

Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

Elsa Dreisig, soprano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Daniel Barenboim and his pioneering West-Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms for a concert marrying passion and politics. 

One of the most richly Romantic works in the repertoire - Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto, performed here by Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili - is paired with Scriabin's ecstatic, orgiastic 'The Poem of Ecstasy', an attempt to bridge the divide between spirituality and sexuality in music. 

At the centre of the concert is David Robert Coleman's 'Looking for Palestine' for soprano and orchestra, a work commissioned by the ensemble, and one that speaks to its uniquely political identity.

BBC Proms: 2018

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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