| Set List | 'Symphony No.34 in D Minor', Haydn,
'Falling in the Fire', Charlotte Bray
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in C Sharp Minor', Mahler |
| Performance Notes | The latest in the series of Proms cello concertos is a powerful new work from Charlotte Bray, an expression of moral outrage at the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, last summer, after which everything changed in the composers compositional outlook. Similarly, something changed in Mahler when he came to write his Fifth Symphony. Not only had he survived a haemorrhage that had nearly killed him, but he had also met and fallen in love with Alma Schindler, for whom the Fifth Symphonys ardent Adagietto is a love song. Before that, Haydns Symphony No. 34 makes its first appearance at the Proms.
BBC commission and world premiere of 'Falling in the Fire', Charlotte Bray. Bray's commission was inspired by looking...
"out into the world: to the horror in 2015 when the firepower of Islamic State destroyed the ancient monuments of Palmyra. A little later she drew more stimulus from a documentary featuring Tim Heatherington, the photo-jpurnalist killed in Libya by a bomb in 2011. The end result was Falling in the Fire, a work so keenly attuned to aural conflict that shellfire of strings, winds and percussion, whizzing and whistling, kept flying over our heads"
(The Times, August 2016) |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/88),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45),
Digital Photographs |