BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: 2021: BBC Concert Orchestra and James McVinnie

BBC Concert Orchestra and James McVinnie

2021

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Live BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing with organist James McVinnie

Live BBC Proms: the BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing with organist James McVinnie perform Rautavaara, Part, Glass and Moussa's A Globe Itself Infolding.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing with James McVinnie (organ), in music by Rautavaara, Arvo Part, Philip Glass and ending with Samy Moussa's A Globe Itself Infolding.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Georgia Mann

Rautavaara's expansive Cantus Arcticus pairs field recordings of bird song with live orchestra;  exciting and inventive organ virtuoso James McVinnie plays Philip Glass's hypnotic Mad Rush for solo organ, and joins the BBC CO for Canadian composer Samy Moussa's 2014 piece A Globe Itself Infolding.  The chill-out vibe runs through two short pieces by Johann Johannsson; and envelop yourself in the warm atmosphere of Judith Weir's Still, Glowing. 

Rautavaara:  Cantus Arcticus Op.61 for orchestra & taped bird song	
Judith Weir:  Still, Glowing							
Philip Glass:  Mad Rush							
Arvo Pärt:  Festina Lente for string orchestra and harp 
Johann Johannsson:  Good Night Day 						
Messiaen:  La Joie de la grâce from Livre du Saint Sacrement 
Johann Johannsson:  A Sparrow Alighted on Our Shoulder			
Samy Moussa:  A Globe Itself Infolding					

James McVinnie (organ)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

James McVinnie is a chameleon among organists who has held titles at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, yet also worked with Philip Glass and The National’s Bryce Dessner. In a Prom that explores the organ in a contemporary light, he navigates the time-warping oscillations of Philip Glass’s Minimalist Mad Rush, before giving the UK premiere of Samy Moussa’s A Globe Itself Infolding with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing.

BBC Proms: 2021

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