BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: 2021: Parallel Universes

Parallel Universes

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Live BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with John Storgårds in Schumann and Britta Byström.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds perform Schumann's Third Symphony, Britta Byström's Parallel Universes and, with Liza Ferschtman, Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds in Schumann's Symphony No.3 and Britta Byström's 'Parallel Universes'. Liza Ferschtman joins them for Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britta Byström: Parallel Universes (BBC commission: world premiere)
Sibelius: Violin Concerto 

8.30pm
Interval: Looking forward to the 'Rhenish' Symphony, Katy Hamilton talks to Petroc Trelawny about Robert Schumann's music in the context of his unstable mental health.

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat major 'Rhenish'

Liza Ferschtman (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)


Liza Ferschtman makes her BBC Proms debut with the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, which seemingly opens with the breath of a mystical legend and ends with what one commentator described as ‘a Polonaise for polar bears’.

The programme opens with a new BBC commission from Swedish composer Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’, and closes with Schumann's uplifting third Symphony, the 'Rhenish'.

BBC Proms: 2021

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