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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 63 - Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle
Performance Date30 August 2012
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:32
Orchestra or BandBerliner Philharmoniker
ConductorsSir Simon Rattle
Set List'Atmosphères', Ligeti,
'Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I)', Wagner,
'Symphony No.4 in A Minor', Sibelius
INTERVAL
'Jeux', Debussy,
'Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No.2', Ravel
Performance NotesOne of the world’s most remarkable musical partnerships offers an evening of wide-ranging sonic adventure. Three gripping approaches to experiencing calm feature in the first half – from Ligeti’s slowly shifting sound-clouds through Wagner’s sustained stillness to Sibelius’s most formidable and bleak evocation of a frozen landscape.

The Gallic second half is all about movement and dance. Tennis is not the only game played in Debussy’s flirtatious ballet for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, while Ravel’s suite, drawn from an earlier commission for the same company, begins with a sunrise and ends in an orgy.

The appearance of the Berline Philharmoniker has been made possible with the support of Deutsche Bank.

Full house. Approxiamately 250 patrons turned away.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/121),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/121BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 63 - Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle30 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/377Berlin Philharmonic; 1882-; German orchestra
DS/UK/1388Rattle; Sir; Simon Denis (19 January 1955); OM CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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