Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 24 - BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena
Performance Date2 August 2016
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersSteven Osborne - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Philharmonic
ConductorsJuanjo Mena
Set List'Ollantay', Ginastera,
'Piano Concerto', B Britten (Steven Osborne)
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.9 in C Major - Great', Schubert
ENCORE
'Oiseaux Tristes' from Miroirs, Ravel (Steven Osborne)
Performance NotesIn his bittersweet Piano Concerto, Britten set out to exploit the piano’s ‘enormous compass, percussive qualities and suitability for figuration’. The result is a true bravura piece whose razor-sharp edge conceals a gregarious smile. Alongside the first London performance of Alberto Ginastera’s very Argentine view of the symphony orchestra comes the inexorable momentum of Schubert’s most invigorating symphony, his ‘Great’ Ninth.

London premiere of 'Ollantay', Ginastera.
'Piano Concerto', Benjamin Britten was premiered at the 1938 Proms at the Queen's Hall.

"Like an exotic bird blown off course, Alberto Ginastera's symphonic triptych Ollantay, nearly 70 years old, landed for the first time in London on Tuesday, gobbled up insects, preened its feathers, then left."
(The Times, 3 August 2016)
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/73),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45)
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/1/2016/73BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 242 August 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/998Osborne; Steven (1971-); Scottish pianist
DS/UK/959Mena; Juanjo (1965-); Spanish conductor
DS/UK/975British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; 1922-; British orchestra
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