| Main Performers | Timothy McAllister - alto saxophone |
| Set List | 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine', J Adams,
'Saxophone Concerto', J Adams
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.1 in D Major', Mahler |
| Performance Notes | Marin Alsop makes a welcome return following her triumph at last year's Last Night, to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony. Originally designated a 'symphonic poem', the work retains all the programmatic colour this suggests. A young hero travels through life, marvelling at nature and growing to maturity, but encountering the sorrows and conflicts of Fate at every turn.
Mahler's long-limbed lyricism meets its match in the muscular drive of John Adams's Saxophone Concerto, written for virtuoso soloist Timothy McAllister, and his iconic orchestral miniature Short Ride in a Fast Machine, which pulses with anarchic life.
UK premiere of 'Saxophone Concerto', John Adams.
The concert broadcast on BBC Four that evening.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Prom 63 was the first live television Prom of the season. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/114),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide |