BBC Proms 2019. Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris 

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BBC Proms: 2019: Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris

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Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris

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Live BBC Proms. Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestre de Paris.

Live at the BBC Proms. Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Schumann, Widmann and Beethoven.

Live at BBC Proms: Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Schumann, Widmann and Beethoven

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Robert Schumann: Genoveva – overture

Jörg Widmann: Babylon Suite
London premiere


c.8.15pm: Interval Proms Plus 
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c.8.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral'


Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Harding, conductor


Town or country? That's the choice offered here by Daniel Harding and the Orchestre de Paris.
Scored for a 90-strong orchestra, Jörg Widmann’s explosive Babylon Suite (adapted from his 2012 opera) invites listeners into the all-consuming sonic chaos of the city – a babel of sound and sensation.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, by contrast, takes listeners through fields and past brooks in its evocative portrait of pastoral life.
The concert opens with the gathering storm-clouds of the overture to Schumann’s only opera, Genoveva.


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