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Prom 8 (part 2): Britten, Lutoslawski and Thomas Ades

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Thomas Ades conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of his work Totentanz. With Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms perform music by Britten and LutosÅ‚awski, alongside the premiere of a new work by tonight's conductor, Thomas Adès

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto

8.20pm Interval

8.40pm
Adès: Totentanz (world premiere)

Paul Watkins (cello)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès (condcutor)

Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens a programme of testimony and remembrance. Former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO Principal Cellist Paul Watkins is the soloist in LutosÅ‚awski's bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland.

Thomas Adès conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of LutosÅ‚awski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when Lübeck's Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War.

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 21st July at 2pm.

1 hour, 35 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Jul 2013 20:40

Music Played

  • Thomas Adès

    Totentanz

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Metopes - 3 poems for piano (Op.29): no.1; L' Ile des sirenes

    • Szymanowski Etudes: Fantasy: Masques: Metopes: Dennis Lee, Piano.
    • Helios.
    • 5.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    The Fountain of Arethusa from Myths for violin and piano (Op.30)

    Performer: Hyun-Mi Kim. Performer: Seung-Hye Choi.
    • KRKBS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Jul 2013 20:40

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