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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 43 - Saint-Saëns - 'Organ Symphony'
Performance Date17 August 2017
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time18:33
Main PerformersStéphanie d’Oustrac - vocal,
Joshua Bell - violin,
Cameron Carpenter - organ
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsCharles Dutoit
Set List'Symphonie Espagnole', Lalo
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.3 in C Minor - Organ', Saint-Saëns
Performance NotesTonight’s celebration of the sun-scorched landscapes of Spain opens with Falla’s flamenco ballet El amor brujo, rich in Andalusian folk melodies and featuring the famous ‘Ritual Fire Dance’.

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, whose title conceals a virtuosic violin concerto steeped in the sounds of Spain, while Cameron Carpenter takes to the organ console in Saint-Saëns’s mighty ‘Organ’ Symphony. ‘With it I have given all I could,’ observed the composer. ‘What I did I could not achieve again.’

At the beginning of the second half, John Gilhooly - on behalf of the Royal Philharmonic Society - presented Charles Dutoit with the Society's Gold Medal, which has been awarded since 1870 for outstanding musicianship.

Proms debuts from Stepahnie d'Oustrac
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/88, incld. Proms Family Guide)
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28)
Ticket Prices£6-£50.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/ajTatC0aFxYbB
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/88BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 43 - Saint-Saëns - 'Organ Symphony'17 August 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/1082Dutoit; Charles Édouard (1936-); Swiss conductor
DS/UK/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/6396Bell; Joshua David (1967-); American violinist
DS/UK/1425Carpenter; Cameron (1981-); American organist
DS/UK/21598d'Oustrac; Stéphanie (1974-); French mezzo-soprano
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