Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 62 - Diana Damrau Sings Strauss
Performance Date29 August 2018
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time18:02
Main PerformersMiah Persson,
Adela Zaharia - vocals
Orchestra or BandRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'In the South (Alassio)’, Elgar,
'Aurora’, I Bell
INTERVAL
'Das Rosenband; Ständchen; Wiegenlied; Zueignung’, R Strauss,
'Concerto for Orchestra’, Bartók
ENCORE
'Zdes Korosho', Rachmaninov, arr. T Jackson (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)
Performance NotesSoprano Diana Damrau joins Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert that moves from the lush, late-Romantic soundscapes of Strauss’s songs and the sweeping melodic generosity of Elgar’s Italy-inspired overture In the South to the leaner, more percussive intensity of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra – a virtuosic showcase for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

The concert also includes the world premiere of Iain Bell’s concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, Aurora, composed especially for Damrau and commissioned by the BBC.

A very appreciative audience who gave a standing ovation at the end.

Diana Damrau, the advertised soprano, has had to withdraw owing to illness. The BBC Proms is grateful to Miah Persson and Adela Zaharia for taking her place at short notice.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/109),
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/1/2018/109BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 62 - Diana Damrau Sings Strauss29 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/1275Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; 1840-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1277Petrenko; Vasily (1976-); Russian conductor
DS/UK/1351Persson; Miah (1971-); Swedish soprano
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