Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 18 - Mahler, Ravel and Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Performance Date30 July 2014
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAlexandre Tharaud - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Philharmonic
ConductorsJuanjo Mena
Set List'Night's Black Bird', H Birtwistle,
'Piano Concerto for the Left Hand', Ravel
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in C Sharp Minor', Mahler
ENCORE
'Prelude for the Left Hand', Scriabin (Alexandre Tharaud)
Performance NotesThe intense, contrasting moods of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 – the bitter solemnity of its funeral march, the violence of its second movement and the tenderness of the famous Adagietto – make this one of the great orchestral showpieces.

In his Proms concerto debut, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Ravel's atmospheric and virtuosic Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and the concert opens with the first of several works at this year's Proms celebrating Sir Harrison Birtwistle's 80th birthday – an atmospheric plunge into mossy, melancholic darkness, lightened only by the call of birds.

The concert was recorded and broadcast on BBC Four on 8 August 2014.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/70),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide,
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£38
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/70BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 1830 July 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/975British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; 1922-; British orchestra
DS/UK/959Mena; Juanjo (1965-); Spanish conductor
DS/UK/19370Tharaud; Alexandre (1968-); French pianist
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