| Orchestra or Band | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Overture' from The Magic Flute, Mozart,
'Let Me Tell You', H Abrahamsen, arr. P Griffiths
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.4 in F Minor', Tchaikovsky
ENCORE
'Sleeping Beauty - Final Variation and Coda', Tchaikovsky |
| Performance Notes | The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra makes its first London appearance with young Lithuanian Mirga Grainyte-Tyla, who becomes the orchestras Music Director next season. While Mozarts overture combines infectious energy with Masonic symbolism, Tchaikovskys dramatic Fourth Symphony explores the shadow cast by Fate. Hans Abrahamsens Grawemeyer Award-winning song-cycle for Barbara Hannigan centres on Shakespeares Ophelia, using only words allotted to her in Hamlet.
Proms premiere of 'Let Me Tell You', Hans Abrahamsen.
Proms and London debut of Mirga Grainyte-Tyla.
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 4 September 2016.
"It's too early to say what personality lies behind the incredibly graceful conducting technique of Mirga Grainyte-Tyla, the new music director at the City of Birmingham Orchestra (CBSO). Thirty this year, the Lithuanian clearly has bags of musicality. That was evident within 30 seconds of her starting her Proms (and indeed London) debut, with Mozart's Magic Flute overture. The chording was pungently accented; the strong phrases lushly nuanced. Like many of today's young conductors she seems to be (in Boris Johnson's phrase) "pro cake and pro eating it" when it comes to 18th-century music: timbres and textures that mimic period insturments, but dynamics that would have had Wilhelm Furtwangler nodding approval."
(The Times, 29 August 2016) |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/104),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45),
Digital Photographs |