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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 61 - Howells and Elgar
Performance Date29 August 2012
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:04
Main PerformersMiah Persson,
Andrew Kennedy - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus,
London Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsMartyn Brabbins
Set List'Hymnus Paradisi', Howells
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.1 in A Flat Major', Elgar
Performance NotesFollowing his triumphant conducting of Havergal Brian’s ‘The Gothic’ Symphony last year, Martyn Brabbins brings another British magnum opus to the Proms. Herbert Howells wrote Hymnus Paradisi ‘for the drawer’ in the wake of the tragically early death of his son. Only years later was he persuaded to release a finished score to the public.

After this light-filled memorial from a composer closely identified with Gloucester Cathedral, we revisit the masterpiece that, in 1908 – the year of the first London Olympics – announced a Worcester man’s arrival as perhaps the greatest of British symphonists.

Proms premiere of 'Hymnus Paradisi'.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and filmed for BBC Four television to be broadcast on 31 August 2012..
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/119),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/119BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 61 - Howells and Elgar29 August 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/58Elgar; Sir; Edward (2 June 1857-23 February 1934); 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO; English composer and conductor
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1351Persson; Miah (1971-); Swedish soprano
DS/UK/1154Kennedy; Andrew (1977-); English tenor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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