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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Martin Helmchen plays Brahms

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Martin Helmchen plays Brahms

BBC Proms 2023

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martin Helmchen play Brahms and Pejačević.

From the BBC Proms, the BBC Symphony Orchestra play music by Pejačević and, with pianist Martin Helmchen, Brahms. Plus, more from the 2023 Queen Elisabeth Competition.

Introduced by Penny Gore, and including another chance to hear Martin Helmchen play Brahms's Second Piano Concerto at the BBC Proms, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo. The concert also includes Dora Pejačević's Symphony in F sharp minor, continuing the Proms focus on the work of this resurgent 20th-century Croatian composer, in the centenary year of her premature death.

Penny also has further highlights from the Queen Elisabeth Competition closing concert, which took place earlier this summer in Belgium. The focus of this year's competition was the voice.

Including:

Pejačević: Menuet, Op 18
Andrej Bielow, violin
Oliver Triendl, piano

Meyerbeer: Nobles seigneurs, salut!, Urbain's aria from 'Les Huguenots'
Juliette Mey, mezzo soprano
Symphony Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, 
Alejo Pérez, conductor

c. 2.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Monday 14th August
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Brahms: Piano concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 83
Martin Helmchen, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

c. 3.00pm
Proms Artist Choice: Martin Helmchen

Brahms: Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

c. 3.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Monday 14th August)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Pejačević: Symphony in F sharp minor, Op 41
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

c. 4.15pm
Rossini: Nacqui all'affanno - Angelina's aria from act 2 of 'La Cenerentola'
Juliette Mey, mezzo soprano
Symphony Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Alejo Pérez, conductor

Massenet: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes, Charlotte's aria from 'Werther'
Floriane Hasler, mezzo soprano
Symphony Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Alejo Pérez, conductor

Mozart: Rondo in B flat major, K 269
Baiba Skride, violin
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Eivind Aadland, conductor

Viardot: Sonatine in A minor
Anna Agafia Egholm, violin
Frank Braley, piano

Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023

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