BBC Proms 2022

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BBC Proms: 2022: Prom 25: Shostakovich's Last Symphony and a Concerto for Theremin

Prom 25: Shostakovich's Last Symphony and a Concerto for Theremin

2022

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Live at the BBC Proms: John Storgards conducts music by Shostakovich, Aho and Saariaho.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic perform music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra) 

8.05 Interval: Following the London premier of Kalevi Aho’s work The Eight Seasons, which is inspired by the way Finland’s native Sami people divide up the year, in the interval Tom McKinney will be joined by Kenneth Steven, a poet and nature writer who has immersed himself in the world of the Sami. 

Kaija Saariaho: Vista 
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.15 

Carolina Eyck (theremin)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Imagine pulling music out of thin air. Two living Finnish masters do just that today: Kaija Saariaho felt that ‘new music was flowing into my mind’ as she drove by night along the coast of California. Kalevi Aho, meanwhile, turned to the eight seasons of Lapland’s Sámi culture in his extraordinary concerto for the theremin. ‘The soloist is like a magician, a weaver of spells,’ he says – ‘producing music without touching the instrument at all.’ Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 inhabits a much darker world, but there’ll be mystery too, as well as humour, when John Storgårds conducts the enigmatic final symphony of one of the 20th century’s supreme musical chroniclers.

BBC Proms: 2022

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