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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 61 - Bank Holiday Prom - San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
Performance Date31 August 2015
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersYuja Wang - piano
Orchestra or BandSan Francisco Symphony
ConductorsMichael Tilson Thomas
Set List'A Symphony: New England Holidays - Decoration Day', Ives,
'Piano Concerto No.2', Bartok
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major, 'Eroica', Beethoven,
ENCORE
'Hungarian Dance No.10', Brahms
Performance NotesChinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto – a work the composer intended to pose ‘fewer difficulties for the orchestra’ and to be ’more pleasing in its thematic material’ than his First. Beethoven’s emotionally charged ‘Eroica’ Symphony forms the second half – the groundbreaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives’s atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father’s marching band.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/119),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£57.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/jUNjQLwj9zHUG
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/119BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 6131 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/20715The San Francisco Symphony (SFS); 1911; American orchestra
DS/UK/20716Wang; Yuja (1987-); Chinese classical pianist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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