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BBC Proms: Proms 2020: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough

Proms 2020

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Another chance to hear Stephen Hough, Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC SSO at the 2020 Proms.

Stephen Hough joins Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto. Plus works by George Walker, Richard Strauss and Jay Capperauld.

Another chance to hear Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough at the 2020 BBC Proms. Plus works by George Walker, Richard Strauss and Jay Capperauld.

Presented by Kate Molleson from City Halls, Glasgow.

Beethoven’s economically scored Second Piano Concerto – written before his First and among the earliest of his works performed in concert halls today – looks both backwards to Haydn and Mozart and forwards to Beethoven’s future innovation and rhythmic fascination.

Tonight’s BBC commission is from Glasgow-based composer Jay Capperauld. Expressed in the context of the recurring 24-hour process that regulates our sleeping patterns, Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) is Capperauld’s response to the cyclical nature of lockdown, enforced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Continuing the theme of mass upheaval, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra closes with Strauss’s devastating Metamorphosen. Written for 23 solo strings during the final months of the Second World War (which Strauss described as ‘the most terrible period of mankind’), it quotes from the Funeral March of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony (No. 3).

Walker Lyric for Strings 					
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 			
Jay Capperauld Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) (BBC commission: world premiere) 				
Strauss Metamorphosen    			

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Hough, piano
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

BBC Proms: Proms 2020

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Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2020 BBC Proms season.

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