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Proms 2023 Prom 39: Ligeti, Bartók and Beethoven

Prom 39
Prom 39: Ligeti, Bartók and Beethoven
19:30 Sun 13 Aug 2023 Royal Albert Hall
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert mark the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti with his Mysteries of the Macabre. Sir András Schiff is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto before Beethoven’s pioneering ‘Eroica’ Symphony.
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert mark the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti with his Mysteries of the Macabre. Sir András Schiff is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto before Beethoven’s pioneering ‘Eroica’ Symphony.

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Iván Fischer, his Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert mark the 100th anniversary of one of the 20th century’s great originals with Mysteries of the Macabre – three arias from Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre that explode in a cartoonish riot of irony and remarkable technique. Meanwhile Sir András Schiff is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, an exquisite, elegiac musical farewell. Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony ends the programme: a passionate, provocative statement of musical and human possibility.

Image: Anna-Lena Elbert © Alan Ovaska

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