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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 19: Strauss, Schumann and Macmillan
Performance Date2 August 2019
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAlexander Melnikov - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsThomas Dausgaard
Set List'Also Sprach Zarathustra', R Strauss
INTERVAL
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', R Schumann,
'The Confession of Isobel Gowdie', J MacMillan
Performance Notes‘I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,’ wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra.

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss’s tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan’s early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th century ‘witch’ and premiered at the Proms in 1990.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/),
Posters (RAHE/2/2019/)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£105, £6 gallery and arena standing
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/2y92YNT2ULW4w
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2019/40BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Proms Guide19 July-14 September 2019
RAHE/2/2019/48BBC Proms 2019 - Proms 1-4719 July-23 August 2019
RAHE/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/58BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 19: Strauss, Schumann and Macmillan2 August 2019
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11719BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season 75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7214Melnikov; Alexander Markovich (1973-); Russian pianist
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1052Dausgaard; Thomas (1963-); Danish conductor
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