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Prom 32: Beethoven鈥檚 Seventh Symphony

Live at the 成人快手 Proms: The 成人快手 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 成人快手 Proms: The 成人快手 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)
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti (conductor)

With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music鈥檚 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鈥檚 baton and ran with it: Louise Farrenc. The first half spotlights two Welsh composers born less than 40 years apart. Grace Williams鈥檚 jaunty Concert Overture, written in her mid-twenties, came 鈥榟ighly recommended鈥� after its entry in a Daily Telegraph competition in 1932鈥�3. And Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the most popular composers of our time, wrote his Stravaganza especially for tonight鈥檚 soloist, Jess Gillam.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Grace Williams

    Concert Overture

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Stravaganza - Concerto

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

    Orchestra: 成人快手 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: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no 7 in A major, Op 92

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Edward Elgar

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

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. 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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