Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 32 - Matinee - Eric Whitacre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Performance Date9 August 2015
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time15:32
Main PerformersMartin James Bartlett - piano,
Leonard Elschenbroich - cello
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus,
BBC Singers
ConductorsEric Whitacre
Set List'Blow It Up, Start Again', J Newman
'The River Cam', E Whitacre,
'Cloudburst', E Whitacre
'Rhapsody in Blue', Gershwin, orch. Grofe
INTERVAL
'Quiet City', Copland,
'Equus', E Whitacre,
'Deep Field', E Whitacre
Performance NotesEuropean premiere of 'Blow It Up, Start Again', Jonathan Newman.
BBC co-comission and European premiere of 'Deep Field', Eric Whitacre.
Proms premieres of 'The River Cam' and 'Equus', E Whitacre.

Korngold performance recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 13 August 2015. Prokofiev performance recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 30 August 2015.

Eric Whitacre’s new work Deep Field is inspired by images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope – and offers the audience a chance to participate in a novel way. In his popular Cloudburst, too, you can help create the sound of rain falling. Plus, American classics by Copland and Gershwin.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/90),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£38.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/jUNjQLwj9zHUG
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/90BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 329 August 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10256BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First 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/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/1353Whitacre; Eric (1970-); American composer, conductor
DS/UK/22328Bartlett; Martin James (20 July 1996); English classical pianist
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