BBC Proms 2023

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The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2023: Prom 21: Adams, Copland and Skye (Part 2)

Prom 21: Adams, Copland and Skye (Part 1)

Prom 21: Adams, Copland and Skye (Part 2)

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Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform John Adams's Harmonium in the second half of their all-American programme.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform John Adams's Harmonium in the second half of their all-American programme.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Adams: Harmonium

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

In the first of two consecutive concerts this week, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft present an all-American Prom. Two poems by Emily Dickinson provide the starting point for Harmonium, one of John Adams’s most powerful works for chorus and orchestra. Propulsive, motoric urgency gives way briefly to blissful waves of sound, before a blazing conclusion. Jazz runs through the veins of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, commissioned by ‘King of Swing’ Benny Goodman and performed here with soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. The concert opens with a world premiere from Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye, whose music has been described as ‘deliciously head-spinning’.

BBC Proms: 2023

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