Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 33: Holst's The Planets
Performance Date10 August 2022
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersRoderick Williams - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsRyan Wigglesworth
Set List'Death and Transfiguration’, R Strauss,
'Pearl’, M Kaner
INTERVAL
'The Planets’, G Holst
Performance NotesFrom broad visions of the universe to the intimacy of human relationships, the wonder of creation to the fragile moment of death, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus take us through it all.

Human loss is at the heart both of Strauss’s tender, rapturous tone-poem Death and Transfiguration – an orchestral portrait of ‘the dying hours of a man’ – and of Matthew Kaner’s Pearl, a lament whose medieval text sees a grieving father glimpsing his daughter in the afterlife. It’s specially tailored to the glowing voice and peerless communicative skill of British baritone Roderick Williams, and to the BBC Symphony Chorus.

Holst’s The Planets leaves Earth far behind in its vivid, myth-inspired journey through our solar system in all its mysterious beauty.

BBC commission and world premiere of 'Pearl’, Matthew Kaner.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/59),
Digital Photographs
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/59BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 33: Holst's The Planets10 August 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
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/1042Wigglesworth; Ryan (1979-); English composer, conductor, pianist
DS/UK/997Williams; Roderick (fl 1990s-); English bass-baritone
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