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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 47 - Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables
Performance Date17 August 2018
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersPekka Kuusisto - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSakari Oramo
Set List'Introduction and Allegro for Strings’, E Elgar,
'Venales Plays Bartók’, Venables, Bartók
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in B Flat Major’, Prokofiev
ENCORE
'Vi Salde Vara Hemman' (Pekka Kuusisto, BBC Symphony Orchestra (humming and strings)
Performance NotesMaverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto made a memorable Proms debut in 2016. Now he returns to premiere a new violin concerto, commissioned by the BBC and written especially for him by award-winning young British composer Philip Venables.

The piece grows out of a recording the composer found of himself as a teenager playing one of Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches to his teacher’s teacher, Rudolf Botta, a Hungarian refugee – and the journey that ensued.

The concerto is framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism – Elgar’s lovely Introduction and Allegro for strings and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, a piece that rejoices in ‘the strength and beauty of the human spirit’.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/95),
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/1/2018/95BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 47 - Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables17 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/21291Kuusisto; Pekka (1976-); Finnish musician
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/969Oramo; Sakari Marcus; OBE; Finnish conductor
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