Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 49 - Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons
Performance Date22 August 2015
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time18:35
Main PerformersHakan Hardenberger - trumpet
Orchestra or BandBoston Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsAndris Nelsons
Set List'Dramatis Personae', B Dean
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.6 in A minor', Mahler
Performance NotesTwo contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight’s Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler’s Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero – one, he explained, ‘on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled’. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler’s wife Alma.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

Proms premiere of 'Dramatis Paersonae', Brett Dean.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/107),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£57.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/107BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 4922 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/923Hardenberger; Hakan (1961-); Swedish trumpeter
DS/UK/7653Boston Symphony Orchestra; 1881-; American orchestra
DS/UK/1182Nelsons; Andris (1978-); Latvian Conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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