BBC Proms 2022

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BBC Proms: 2022: Prom 66: Beethoven, Betsy Jolas and Mahler

Prom 66: Beethoven, Betsy Jolas and Mahler

2022

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Live at the BBC Proms: Karina Canellakis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Karina Canellakis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony and the world premiere of Betsy Jolas's bTunes with pianist Nicolas Hodges.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Karina Canellakis, perform Mahler's First Symphony and premiere Betsy Jolas's bTunes with pianist Nicolas Hodges.

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus – overture
Betsy Jolas: bTunes [BBC co-commission: world premiere]

7.55 pm
Interval: Ian Skelly talks to Robert Samuels about Mahler's First Symphony.

8.15pm
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 

Nicolas Hodges (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Imagine if silence had a sound. That’s what the young Gustav Mahler tried to evoke in the massive stillness that opens his First Symphony – a whole world emerging into life, and a young artist walking out to find triumph, tragedy and (of course) love. But youth is a state of mind: expect surprises (and sounds) like you’ve never heard when the revered Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas riffs on the 21st-century listening culture of playlists and downloads in her inventive new concerto for pianist Nicolas Hodges. Karina Canellakis (hailed by The Times for her ‘freshly minted’ interpretations) conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and few living conductors are better equipped to channel fire from the gods in Beethoven’s Olympian overture.

BBC Proms: 2022

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