| Set List | 'Musical Offering Ricercar a, Bach, orch. Webern,
'Viola Concerto, C Miller
ENCORE
'Imitazione delle Campane', J P Von Westhoff
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.6 in A Major, Bruckner |
| Performance Notes | This season the Proms looks beyond the piano and violin to concertos that explore more unusual instruments, including the tuba, trombone and theremin.
BBC co-commission and world premiere of 'Viola Concerto, C Miller.
Award-winning violist Lawrence Power launches the strand with a new concerto by Canadian composer Cassandra Miller. It is the latest in a long series of major works Power has commissioned for an instrument whose range and reputation he continues to expand.
The concert opens with Weberns airy, pellucid arrangement of Bachs richest piece of fugal writing the six-part Ricercar from his Musical Offering and closes with the symphony Bruckner himself considered his sassiest.
Baffling the composers contemporaries with its relative brevity and sudden shifts of musical direction, it has been praised for its exceptionally beautiful themes and the subtlety of its instrumentation. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/31),
Digital Photographs |