BBC Proms 2023

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BBC Proms: 2023: Prom 61: Chineke! perform Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

Prom 61: Chineke! perform Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

2023

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Live at the BBC Proms: Anthony Parnther conducts Chineke! Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Anthony Parnther conducts Chineke! Orchestra in music by Valerie Coleman, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Haydn and Beethoven.

Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra conducted by Anthony Parnther in music by Valerie Coleman, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Haydn and Beethoven.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Noveletten for String Orchestra, Op. 52
Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

c. 8.20pm Interval: Poet Yomi Sode, author of a collection called Manorism, has collaborated with Chineke! Orchestra in the past. He joins Linton Stephens to discuss his writing and his interest in music. 

c. 8.40pm
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 1 – Rondo
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

Aaron Azunda Akugbo (trumpet)
Chineke! Orchestra
Conductor Anthony Parnther

Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony and Haydn’s exuberant Trumpet Concerto. On a mission to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music, Chineke! also showcases music by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his American namesake, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Plus there’s an opportunity to hear Valerie Coleman’s pandemic anthem, Seven O’Clock Shout.

02.33 Valerie Coleman Seven O’Clock Shout
11.36 Coleridge-Taylor Four Noveletten
37.03 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
59.45 Interval: Poet, Yomi Sode and Linton Stephens
1.23.52 Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1 – Rondo (3rd mvt)
1.33.44 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

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