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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 18 - Sirens and Schehrazade
Performance Date28 July 2017
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersHannah Holgersson,
Ida Falk Winland - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsJames Gaffigan (Proms Debut Artist)
Set List'The Seahawk, Overture', Korngold,
'Sirens', A Hillborg
INTERVAL
'Scheherazade', Rimsky-Korsakov
Performance NotesRimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade tells magical tales from the Thousand and One Nights in music suffused with oriental colour and seafaring drama.

Swashbuckling battles are played out on the high seas in Korngold’s stirring score to the 1940 film The Sea Hawk, while danger also lurks in the waters of Anders Hillborg’s Sirens, inspired by the mythical seductresses of Homer’s Odyssey.

UK premiere of 'Sirens', Anders Hillborg
Proms and Royal Albert Hall debut from Hannah Holgersson.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/64),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28)
Ticket Prices£6-£40.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/ajTatC0aFxYbB
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/47aBBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Proms Guide14 July-9 September 2017
RAHE/1/2017/64BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 18 - Sirens and Schehrazade28 July 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/21569Winland; Ida Falk (fl 2015-); Swedish soprano
DS/UK/21570Gaffigan; James (1979-); American conductor
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