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Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2024

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams, Beethoven and Farrenc. Jess Gillam is the soloist for Karl Jenkins' Stravaganza.

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams, Beethoven and Farrenc. Jess Gillam is the soloist for Karl Jenkins' Stravaganza.

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

G Williams: Concert Overture
Karl Jenkins: Stravaganza

c.8.05pm
INTERVAL: Writer and broadcaster Nigel Simeone joins Sarah Walker to discuss his choice pick of Proms for the week ahead, with music from Grace Williams, Mendelssohn and Duke Ellington.

c.8.25pm
Farrenc: Overture No 1, Op 23
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92

Jess Gillam (saxophone)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti (conductor)

With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music’s fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti places this momentous symphonic dance alongside music by a composer from the generation after Beethoven, one who picked up the master’s baton and ran with it: Louise Farrenc. The first half spotlights two Welsh composers born less than 40 years apart. Grace Williams’s jaunty Concert Overture, written in her mid-twenties, came β€˜highly recommended’ after its entry in a Daily Telegraph competition in 1932–3. And Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the most popular composers of our time, wrote his Stravaganza especially for tonight’s soloist, Jess Gillam.

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Music Played

  • Grace Williams

    Concert Overture

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Stravaganza - Concerto

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony "Symphony No. 2" (1920 Version): IV. Finale.

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2).
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Duke Ellington

    Caravan

    Music Arranger: Morton Gould. Orchestra: Morton Gould's Symphonic Band. Conductor: Morton Gould.
    • RCA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    "You Spotted Snakes" (from Act 2, A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Singer: Lynne Dawson. Singer: Suzanne Mentzner. Choir: Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • EMI.

  • Benjamin Britten

    War Requiem ('Dies Irae')

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc

    Overture In E Minor Op.23

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no 7 in A major, Op 92

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op.82 I. Allegro

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • ERATO.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi fan tutte - Overture

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • ERATO.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII 11 - I. Vivace

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
    • SONY.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII 11 - II. Un poco adagio

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
    • SONY.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII 11 - III. Rondo all'ungarese

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Aug 2024 19:30
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