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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 35: Enigma Variations
Performance Date13 August 2019
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersNadine Benjamin,
Idunnu Munch,
William Morgan,
David Ireland - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsEnglish National Opera (ENO) Chorus
BBC Singers
ConductorsMartyn Brabbins
Set List'Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B. c30’',
'New ‘Enigma’ variations', Kalevi Aho, Sally Beamish, H Birtwistle, Richard Blackford, Gavin Bryars, Brett Dean, Dai Fujikura, Wim Henderickx, Colin Matthews, Anthony Payne, John Pickard, David Sawer, Iris ter 'Schiphorst and Judith Weir', - BBC commission: world premiere
'Serenade to Music 13’', Vaughan Williams - Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1938
INTERVAL
'Song of Destiny 18’', Brahms
'‘Enigma’ Variations 29’', Elgar
Performance NotesElgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations is the inspiration for a new work commissioned from 14 living composers as a special birthday tribute to conductor Martyn Brabbins, who turns 60 today.

Elgar’s original set also features, as do Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music and Brahms’s ‘Little Requiem’, the Song of Destiny.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/),
Digital Photographs,
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/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/73BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 35: Enigma Variations13 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/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1279English National Opera (ENO); c1889-; English opera company
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/925Brabbins; Martyn (1959-); British conductor
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