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Performance TitleBBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 9: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Stravinsky
Performance Date6 August 2021
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersCarolyn Sampson,
Tim Mead,
Benjamin Hulett,
Simon Shibambu -vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsJoana Carneiro
Set List'Stabat Mater', Pergolesi,
'Pulcinella', Stravinsky
Performance NotesIn 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 52 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Hall’s magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

Can a composer reuse the past and at the same time move in a forward direction? It’s the question that goes to the heart of Igor Stravinsky’s music – works that often take their inspiration from historical models but remain defiantly, distinctively modern. Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death with a concert pairing the composer’s ballet Pulcinella – a witty, charming take on Baroque dance and commedia dell’arte – with the heart-rending Stabat mater by Pergolesi, whose music inspired it.

The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Related Archival MaterialProspectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/14)
Ticket Prices£7.12-£
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2021/14BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 9: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Stravinsky6 August 2021
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12261BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2021 - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season46
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/929Sampson; Carolyn (fl 2007-); English soprano opera singer
DS/UK/5469Mead; Tim (1981-); English countertenor
DS/UK/5000Hulett; Benjamin (fl 2005-); British tenor
DS/UK/23491Shibambu; Simon; South African bass singer
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/23492Carneiro; Joana (30 September 1976); Portuguese conductor
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