Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2018 Episodes Episode guide
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (Prom 50)
A symphony in 5 movements with the famous adagietto, a love song to his future wife Alma.
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Gustav Holst: The Planets (Prom 1)
Holst’s ever-popular suite from 1918, composed as a response to The First World War.
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Gustav Holst: Ode to Death (Prom 17)
A setting of a passage from Walt Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'.
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Giovanni Sollima: Violoncelles, vibrez! (Prom 3)
One of Sollima’s most often-performed pieces. It exists in a number of different scorings
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George Benjamin: Dance Figures (Prom 28)
Consists of nine short movements which contrast strongly in character, form and colour.
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Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in C sharp minor (Prom 55)
The rhapsodies were written as a homage to Liszt's home place, Hungary.
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Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor (Prom 8)
Composed when Mendelssohn was just 22 on a visit to Munich.
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Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor (Prom 41)
Elgar’s elegaic Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the First World War.
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Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor (Prom 42)
Grieg's only concerto, influenced by Robert Schumann's music and Norwegian folk music.
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor (Prom 60)
The triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin.
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major (Prom 12)
Composed in 1959 for Rostropovich, who learnt it and gave the premiere four days later.
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David Bruce: Sidechaining (Prom 3)
World premiere of a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commission, scored for four soloists and orchestra.
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Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche (Last Night of the Proms)
The soloist is Jess Gillam, the first ever saxophone Finalist in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Young Musician..
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Daphne Oram: Still Point (Prom 13)
For double orchestra, treated recordings, five microphones, echo and tone controls
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Claude Debussy: La mer (Prom 28)
Much of its inspiration comes from the sea, but also from the scales of far eastern music
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Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of the Sea (Last Night of the Proms)
Gerald Finley performs a cycle of five songs to poems by Henry Newbolt.
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Arvo Pärt: Symphony No 3 (Prom 42)
Symphony No.3 was released in 1971, it is influenced by early European polyphony.
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Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams - Sender & Receiver
A new work by Anna Meredith & 59 Productions from outside and inside the Albert Hall
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Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams - Sender
A new collaboration by Anna Meredith & 59 Productions from outside the Royal Albert Hall.
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Andrew Norman: Spiral (Prom 12)
Commissioned to celebrate Sir Simon's Rattle's final season with the Berlin Philharmonic.