Prom 24: A Hero's Life
Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ NOW and conductor Otto Tausk with Daniel MΓΌllerβSchott in DvoΕΓ‘k's Cello Concerto. Plus a performance of Richard Strauss's tone poem, Ein Heldenleben.
Live at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ NOW and conductor Otto Tausk with the cellist Daniel MΓΌllerβSchott in DvoΕΓ‘k's Cello Concerto. Plus performances of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and the Prelude to Act 2 of Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Smyth: The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2)
DvoΕΓ‘k: Cello Concerto in B minor
c. 8pm Interval: commemorating 50 years since the Russian maestro Mstilav Rostropovich famously performed Dvorak's Cello Concerto at the Proms as Soviet tanks entered Prague, Sir John Tusa and Marina Frolova-Walker discuss with Petroc Trelawny the cultural repercussions started by the upheaval across the Iron Curtain. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.
c. 8.25pm
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Daniel MΓΌllerβSchott (cello)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Otto Tausk (conductor)
Triumphant horns and a flirtatious, vivacious solo violin set the tone for Strauss's vivid autobiographical tone-poem Ein Heldenleben - 'A Hero's Life', outwardly inspired by 'an ideal of great and manly heroism'. The orchestra is also at the forefront in DvoΕΓ‘k's Cello Concerto, sounding as an equal partner to the soloist - German cellist Daniel MΓΌller-Schott, who returns to the Proms under tonight's debut conductor Otto Tausk - in an intensely personal work that marries a pervasive sense of longing with real passion. And in the centenary year of British women gaining the right to vote, Ethel Smyth's evocative Act 2 Prelude from The Wreckers celebrates a key British composer who, as a suffragette, spent two months in Holloway Prison.
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Ethel Smyth
The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2)
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Otto Tausk. -
AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Cello Concerto in B minor
Performer: Daniel MΓΌllerβSchott. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. -
Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Otto Tausk. -
Enrique Granados
Allegro de concierto
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.- Granados: Goyescas: Ohlsson.
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Performer | ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales |
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- Wed 1 Aug 2018 19:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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