BBC Proms 2020

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BBC Proms: 2020: Music championed by, or written in memory of, Richard Hickox

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Music championed by, or written in memory of, Richard Hickox

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Music championed by, or written in memory of, Richard Hickox (1948–2008)

Britten’s tribute to his teacher Frank Bridge, a new work by Colin Matthews (who worked as Britten’s assistant) and Mozart’s Requiem.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

Britten's Variations is one of many British pieces championed by the late Richard Hickox, two of whose distinguished vocal collaborators, Ian Bostridge and Roderick Williams, are featured in Colin Matthews's new work, which Hickox commissioned.

Mozart’s Requiem was left incomplete at the composer’s early death, its deathly tread and radiant hope adding to its symbolism as Mozart’s musical epitaph.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Colin Matthews: No Man’s Land (world premiere)
Mozart (compl. Sussmayr): Requiem in D minor

Emma Bell (soprano)
Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Henk Neven (bass)
Polyphony
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2011, 21 August)

BBC Proms: 2020

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