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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 33: Rachmaninov, Mahler-Werfel and Pejacevic
Performance Date9 August 2023
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersDame Sarah Connolly - vocal
Orchestra or BandBBC Philharmonic
ConductorsJohn Storgårds
Set List'Oberon – Overture', Weber,
'Zwei Schmetterlingslieder, Op.52', Pejacevic,
'Verwandlung, Op.37b', Pejacevic,
'Liebeslied, Op.39', Pejacevic,
‘Dies stille Stadt’; ‘Licht in der Nacht’; ‘Bei dir ist es traut’, Mahler-Werfel, orch. C Matthews, D Matthews,
'Symphony No.1 in D Minor', Rachmaninov
Performance NotesIf the first-night audience was hostile to the 23-year-old Rachmaninov’s First Symphony, history has been far kinder, embracing its ability to reimagine Russian musical tradition.

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly for turn-of-the-century songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Croatia’s Dora Pejacevic, and the curtain rises with the overture to Weber’s Grand Romantic and Fairy Opera, written for London’s Covent Garden.

There was no interval.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
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/887Connolly; Dame; Sarah Patricia (1963-); CBE; English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/975British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; 1922-; British orchestra
DS/UK/19732Storgårds; John Gunnar Rafael (1963-); Finnish violinist and conductor
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