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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 38 - Sibelius, Bridge and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performance Date14 August 2014
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersLeonard Elschenbroich - cello
Orchestra or BandBBC Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsJohn Storgårds
Set List'Finlandia', Sibelius,
'Symphony No.5', Sir P Maxwell Davies,
'Oration', Bridge
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.2 in D Major', Sibelius
Performance NotesThe chain of influence between Sibelius and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is a direct one.

Sibelius's seamlessly shifting structures and stirring musical language (both showcased in his Second Symphony) are echoed and evolved by Davies, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year. His Fifth Symphony shares its single-movement form with Sibelius's Seventh and its vigorous brass writing also owes a debt to the elder composer.

Finnish conductor John Storgårds, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, champions his nation's musical hero and also pays tribute to the First World War anniversary in Bridge's haunting Oration – part lament, part warning.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/89),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£38.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/89BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 3814 August 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/6954Elschenbroich; Leonard (1985-); German cellist
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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