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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 52: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Pekka Kuusisto
Performance Date26 August 2022
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPekka Kuusisto - violin
Orchestra or BandFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsNicholas Collon
Set List'La Mer’, Debussy
'The Lark Ascending’, R Vaughan Williams (Kuusisto)
ENCORE
'Humoresque No.4, Op.89 in G Minor', Sibelius (Kuusisto)
INTERVAL
'Märchentänze’, T Adès,
'Symphony No.5 in E Flat Major’, Sibelius
Performance NotesA lone bird soars and dives in Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending; a whole chorus of skylarks come together in joyful clamour in Thomas Adès’ Märchentänze (‘Fairy-Tale Dances’); and swans fly, majestic in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.

Nature – beautiful, powerful, elemental – is the guiding thread through this concert from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, taking us from the English countryside to the glitter and churn of waves in Debussy’s La mer and finally to Finland’s forests and lakes. Finnish violin maverick Pekka Kuusisto is the soloist.

UK premiere of 'Märchentänze’, T Adès.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ ),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/i4l7lwyg7xmj-b3n991
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/78BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 52: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Pekka Kuusisto 26 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/1059Collon; Nicholas (fl 2012); British conductor
DS/UK/21291Kuusisto; Pekka (1976-); Finnish musician
DS/UK/17024Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; 1927-; Finnish orchestra
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