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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 48: Zubin Mehta Conducts the Australian World Orchestra
Performance Date23 August 2022
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersSiobhan Stagg - vocals
Orchestra or BandAustralian World Orchestra
ConductorsZubin Mehta
Set List'Passacaglia, Op.1’, Webern,
'Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6 (revised version, 1928)’, Webern,
'Ariettes Oubliées’, Debussy, arr. BDean
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.2 in D Major’, Brahms
Performance NotesCelebrated conductor Zubin Mehta returns to the Proms for the first time in over a decade. He marks 2022’s UK/Australia Season cultural initiative with the Australian World Orchestra – a classical supergroup whose members are drawn from some 50 of the world’s greatest international orchestras.

Brahms’ lyrical Second Symphony – clouds gathering just beneath its sunny surface – is prefaced by a sequence of early works by two starkly contrasting composers.

The lushness of Webern’s Op. 1 Passacaglia gives way to the spare textures and telling gestures of the Six Pieces for Orchestra, while the Verlaine song-cycle Ariettes oubliées sees Debussy forging the expressive, speech-song word-setting that would redefine opera in Pelléas and Mélisande.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ ),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/ckjs3oas6q1m-yp2tds
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/74BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 48: Zubin Mehta Conducts the Australian World Orchestra 23 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/21311Stagg; Siobhan (fl 2015-); Australian soprano
DS/UK/11186Mehta; Zubin (1936-); Indian Parsi classical conductor
DS/UK/23973Australian World Orchestra (2011-)
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