Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 43 - Daniel Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Performance Date14 August 2018
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:31
Main PerformersElsa Dreisig - vocal,
Lisa Batiashvili - violin
Orchestra or BandWest–Eastern Divan Orchestra
ConductorsDaniel Barenboim
Set List'Violin Concerto’, Tchaikovsky
INTERVAL
'Looking for Palestine’, D R Coleman,
'The Poem of Ecstasy’, Scriabin
ENCORE
'Nimrod', E Elgar
Performance NotesDaniel Barenboim and his pioneering West–Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms for a concert marrying passion and politics.

One of the best-loved Romantic works in the repertoire – Brahms’s colourful, dance-filled Violin Concerto, performed here by Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili – is paired with Scriabin’s ecstatic, orgiastic The Poem of Ecstasy, an attempt to bridge the divide between spirituality and sexuality in music.

At the centre of the concert is David Robert Coleman’s 'Looking for Palestine' for soprano and orchestra, a work commissioned by the ensemble, and one that speaks to its uniquely political identity.

Proms, Royal Albert Hall and London premiere of 'Looking for Palestine’, D R Coleman.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/91),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/91BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 43 - Daniel Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra14 August 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/22000Dreisig; Elsa (1991-); French-Danish soprano
DS/UK/7087Batiashvili; Lisa (7 March 1979); Georgian violinist
DS/UK/990West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; 1999-; International youth orchestra based in Spain
DS/UK/989Barenboim; Daniel (15 November 1942); KBE; Argentine pianist and conductor
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