| Set List | 'Symphony No.2 in B Flat Major, Schubert,
'The Eternal Stranger', E Milch-Sheriff,
'Symphony No.4 in B Flat Major', Beethoven |
| Performance Notes | In 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 Halls magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
Beethoven is at the centre of a musical web connecting the 17-year-old Schuberts precocious, vivacious Symphony No. 2 not only written in the elder composers shadow, but quoting him directly and Ella Milch-Sheriffs The Eternal Stranger, interweaving and reimagining fragments of Beethoven with the Middle Eastern colours and traditions of Israel. Dedicated to the BBC Philharmonics Chief Conductor, Omer Meir Wellber, it sits alongside Beethovens own Symphony No. 4, the composers slender, graceful answer to the weightier symphonies that frame it.
BBC co-commission and UK premiere of 'The Eternal Stranger, Ella Milch-Sheriff.
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 Material | Prospectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/11) |