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Summer Festivals

A series of great Proms concerts from recent years by 麻豆官网首页入口 orchestras and choirs, launched by the 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales, 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra and 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra.

A new series of great Proms concerts from recent years by 麻豆官网首页入口 orchestras and choirs, launched by the 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales, 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra and 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major (Classical Symphony)
Qigang Chen: Iris D茅voil茅e (London premiere)
with Meng Meng, Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi (sopranos), Jia Li (pipa), Jing Chang (zheng) and Nan Wang (erhu)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor
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Conductor Xian Zhang

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon
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Conducted by the composer

Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years by the 麻豆官网首页入口 Orchestras and Choirs. This week features all six 麻豆官网首页入口-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers and 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus; the 麻豆官网首页入口 National Chorus of Wales will feature in two weeks' time. The series will also celebrate the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage, and highlight some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day.

To launch the series today Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang makes her Proms debut in a hyper-Romantic 2015 concert featuring two Russian blockbusters and a gorgeous recent work by her compatriot Qigang Chen. Plus George Benjamin conducting the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra in the piece whose 1980 Proms premiere catapulted him to fame, and film favourites from a 2011 Prom by the 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra and their then Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart - who feature throughout this week.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major (Classical Symphony)

    Performer: Meng Meng. Performer: Anu Komsi. Performer: Piia Komsi. Performer: Jia Li. Performer: Jing Chang. Performer: Nan Wang. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Xian Zhang.
  • Qigang Chen

    Iris D茅voil茅e

    Performer: Meng Meng. Performer: Anu Komsi. Performer: Piia Komsi. Performer: Jia Li. Performer: Jing Chang. Performer: Nan Wang. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Xian Zhang.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2 in E Minor

    Performer: Meng Meng. Performer: Anu Komsi. Performer: Piia Komsi. Performer: Jia Li. Performer: Jing Chang. Performer: Nan Wang. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Xian Zhang.
  • Tunde Jegede

    Breath of Life

    Performer: Robert Plane.
  • Sir George Benjamin

    Ringed by the Flat Horizon

    Performer: Carolin Widmann. Conductor: Sir George Benjamin. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 Jul 2020 14:00