Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 34 - Barber, Britten and Copland
Performance Date8 August 2018
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:01
Main PerformersSally Matthews - vocal
Orchestra or BandBBC Philharmonic
ConductorsJuanjo Mena
Set List'Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’, W Walton,
'Connotations’, A Copland,
'Les Illuminations’, B Britten,
INTERVAL
'Two Scenes from ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, Barber,
'Four Sea Interludes' from Peter Grimes, B Britten
Performance NotesIn Bernstein’s centenary year, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate with a transatlantic Prom, uniting music by British and American composers connected not just by generation but in many cases by personal friendship.

Commissioned and premiered by Bernstein, Copland’s Connotations is a portrait of ‘the tensions, aspirations and drama inherent in the world today’.

Its knotty confrontations find contrast in the sensuous beauty of Britten’s orchestral song-cycle Les illuminations, while the sea provides inspiration both for Walton’s bustling, bonhomous Portsmouth Point overture and Britten’s boldly dramatic Four Sea Interludes.

Two extracts from Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra complete the programme.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/83),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/83BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 34 - Barber, Britten and Copland8 August 2018
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/975British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; 1922-; British orchestra
DS/UK/959Mena; Juanjo (1965-); Spanish conductor
DS/UK/920Matthews; Sally Helanna (1975-); British soprano
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