BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021: George Lewis and Beethoven

Ilan Volkov

George Lewis and Beethoven

Proms at Christmas 2021

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The BBC SSO, conducted by Ilan Volkov, and soprano Lucy Crowe at the 2021 BBC Proms.

Another chance to hear the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov with soprano Lucy Crowe perform George Lewis's Minds in Flux and Beethoven's Second Symphony and concert aria Ah! perfido.

From the 2021 BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Ilan Volkov with soprano Lucy Crowe. A new work, Minds in Flux, by George Lewis; and Beethoven's Symphony No 2 and concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ 

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Kate Molleson

George Lewis: Minds in Flux

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Kate Molleson talks to George Lewis about the forces that have influenced him as a composer and artist.

Part 2
Beethoven: Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’
Beethoven: Symphony No 2

Lucy Crowe, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality and ‘smiling’ mood belie the private struggles and despair of a composer wrestling with hearing loss. Plus a commission from celebrated American composer George Lewis. This recent work blends a conventional orchestra with spatialised electronics, exploiting the unique space of the Royal Albert Hall to create, in Lewis’s words, ‘a medium for meditation on what processes of decolonisation might sound like’.

BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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

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