19:30 Wednesday 31 Aug 2016
Royal Albert Hall
Bayan Northcott: Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony
Baiba Skride violin
Siobhan Stagg soprano
Christopher Maltman baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor
Simone Young makes her Proms debut with the world premiere of Bayan Northcott's Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart's Eastern-influenced violin concerto. Then, a rare chance to hear Zemlinsky's setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, an alluring and mysterious slice of late-Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra.
Royal Albert Hall
Bayan Northcott: Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony
Baiba Skride violin
Siobhan Stagg soprano
Christopher Maltman baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor
Simone Young makes her Proms debut with the world premiere of Bayan Northcott's Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart's Eastern-influenced violin concerto. Then, a rare chance to hear Zemlinsky's setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, an alluring and mysterious slice of late-Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra.
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