Prom 72: Philadelphia Orchestra & Janine Jansen

8 Sep 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 8 Sep 2011 Next Event

Proms 2011 Prom 72: Philadelphia Orchestra & Janine Jansen

19:30 Thu 8 Sep 2011 Royal Albert Hall

The Proms welcome back the fabulous Philadelphia Orchestra after a five-year gap. This event has no seats remaining - check for returns closer to the date or Prom on the day for 拢5.

Programme

- - Jean Sibelius
  - Finlandia(8 mins)
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Violin Concerto in D major(35 mins)
- - interval
- - Sergey Rachmaninov
  - Symphonic Dances(36 mins)
- - Maurice Ravel
  - La valse(12 mins)

Performers

Janine Jansen
violin
violin
Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

One of the world's great orchestras comes to the Proms with a programme of familiar classics that takes in Rachmaninov's bracing swansong, written for Philadelphia.

A regular visitor in recent years, Janine Jansen joins the orchestra for the ever-popular Tchaikovsky concerto she recorded recently in fresh and unashamedly romantic style.

These works are bookended by Sibelius's patriotic rallying cry and Ravel's apotheosis of the waltz, a piece whose unstoppable whirling may have been intended as a metaphor for the fate of European civilisation.