Orchestra or Band | BBC National Orchestra of Wales |
Set List | 'Ouverture de feerie' from Shéhérazade, Ravel, 'Hive, S Beamish INTERVAL 'Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov |
Performance Notes | The legend of Scheherazade and her bewitching stories from One Thousand and One Nights are vividly captured in both Rimsky-Korsakovs orchestral suite a dazzling musical portrait of the East, full of shipwrecks, love scenes and crowded bazaars and Ravels sensually beautiful overture, written for a never-completed opera.
BBC co-commission and world premiere of 'Hive' by Sally Beamish.
Were in more familiar landscapes in Sally Beamishs Hive, which traces the life of a beehive across four seasons, starting with the gentle stir and shimmer of winter and climaxing in the swarms, dances and battles of summer. Award-winning Welsh harpist Catrin Finch is the soloist in this world-premiere. |
Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26), Programme (RAHE/1/2022/35), Digital Photographs |