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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 40: Martin Helmchen Plays Brahms
Performance Date14 August 2023
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMartin Helmchen - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSakari Oramo
Set List'Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major', Brahms
INTERVAL
'Symphony in F Sharp Minor', Pejacevic
Performance NotesAward-winning German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut as soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, a vast work full of mercurial mood swings and technical demands.

The concerto’s late-Romantic spirit and generous scope find an echo in Dora Pejacevic’s Symphony in F sharp minor, richly scored symphony and resplendent with brass. Composed during the First World War, when Pejacevic worked as a nurse, the work receives its Proms premiere by Sakari Oramo following their critically acclaimed recording.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/969Oramo; Sakari Marcus; OBE; Finnish conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
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