
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.
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Adès: Totentanz - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms 2013
Duration: 01:42
Music Played
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Thomas Adès
Totentanz
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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.
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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 20:40ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
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