Homepage

Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 35: Mahler's 'Tenth Symphony'
Performance Date10 August 2023
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLeila Josefowicz - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Andrew Davis
Set List'Violin Concerto', Berg
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.10 in F Sharp Major', Mahler, compl. D Cooke
Performance NotesGrief and loss haunt an emotionally charged programme from Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra pairing two 20th-century masterpieces, each premiered after their composers’ deaths.

Berg’s Violin Concerto weaves quotations from Bach into music contrasting expressive Romanticism with cooler serial techniques. American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz is the soloist. Heard here in Deryck Cooke’s performing version, Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 is another deeply personal work, charged with anguished love for an unfaithful wife (see Prom 33), and written on the brink of the composer’s own final illness.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£8-£
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/od9iu3mjxhic-c8i72k
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/21611Josefowicz; Leila Bronia (1977-); American-Canadian classical violinist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/4980Davis; Sir; Andrew (2 February 1944); CBE; English conductor
Add to My Items