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BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021: Sir George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Sir George Benjamin Conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Sir George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Proms at Christmas 2021

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Sir George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms.

Another chance to hear Sir George Benjamin conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms.

From the BBC Proms 2021: Sir George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra and Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ravel's Piano Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore, from the Royal Albert Hall, London 


Oliver Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder
Henry Purcell: Three Consorts (1680) transcr. Benjamin; world premiere
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
George Benjamin: Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere - BBC co-commission with Mahler Chamber Orchestra)

Pierre‐Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Sir George Benjamin (conductor)

When the 20-year-old George Benjamin’s Ringed by the Flat Horizon was performed at the Proms in 1980, it marked an arrival for a precociously talented young composer. Now established as one of the greats of his generation, he returns to conduct regular collaborators, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in a concert featuring Ravel’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto, an operatic ‘pot-pourri’ by his friend, the late Oliver Knussen, the world premiere of his own Concerto for Orchestra and his new reworkings of Fantasias by Purcell, the ‘English Orpheus’.

BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021

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Another chance to hear a selection of BBC Proms concerts over the festive period.

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