Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 60 - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas
Performance Date30 August 2015
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersJeremy Denk - piano
Orchestra or BandSan Francisco Symphony
ConductorsMichael Tilson Thomas
Set List'Theme and Variations, Op.43b', Schoenberg,
'Piano Concerto', H Cowell
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.1 in D major', Mahler,
ENCORE
'The Alcotts from Concert Sonata', Ives
Performance NotesIt has been almost a decade since the San Francisco Symphony visited the Proms. The orchestra is joined by its Music Director of more than 20 years, Michael Tilson Thomas, and by American pianist Jeremy Denk in the latter’s second concert of the season. Here Denk tackles an American rarity – Henry Cowell’s extraordinary Piano Concerto, whose primitive textures require the soloist to pound the piano with fists and forearms. It is paired with Mahler’s First Symphony, an ebullient youthful work filled with hints of the mature composer to come, and Schoenberg’s imaginative Theme and Variations, heard in the composer’s own orchestral arrangement.

Proms premieres of 'Theme and Variations, Op.43b', Schoenberg, and 'Piano Concerto', Henry Cowell.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/118),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£57.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/118BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 6030 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/7662Thomas; Michael Tilson (1944-); American conductor, composer, pianist
DS/UK/20714Denk; Jeremy (1970-); American classical pianist
DS/UK/20715The San Francisco Symphony (SFS); 1911; American orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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