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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 15 - BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis
Performance Date26 July 2016
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersRay Chen - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra (Stephen Bryant, leader)
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus (Tom Seligman, chorus-master)
ConductorsSir Andrew Davis
Set List'The Tempest', Tchaikovsky,
'Of Land, Sea and Sky’, A Payne (Ray Chen)
ENCORE
'Caprice No.21', Paginini
INTERVAL
Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor’, Bruch,
Toward the Unknown Region’, R Vaughan Williams
Performance NotesVaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region was his first large-scale masterpiece, setting the visionary words of Walt Whitman. Sir Andrew Davis also conducts Tchaikovsky’s swashbuckling The Tempest and the first performance of Anthony Payne’s Of Land, Sea and Sky. Bruch’s radiant First Violin Concerto completes the programme.

BBC commission and world premiere of 'Of Land, Sea and Sky’, Anthony Payne to mark the composer's 80th birthday. Payne appeared on stage with Sir Andrew Davis for applause.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/64),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£6-£38.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/mupmxQxmuDC-Cv
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2016/45BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 Mini Guide15 July-10 September 2016
RAHE/1/2016/64BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 1526 July 2016
RAHE/1/2016/50BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Proms Guide15 July-10 September 2016
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10540BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4980Davis; Sir; Andrew (2 February 1944); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/21280Chen; Ray (1989-); Taiwanese-Australian violinist
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